An instructive algorithm for aircraft elevator sizing to be used in preliminary aircraft design software
- Submitting institution
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Coventry University
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 13822721
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.5937/jaes15-14829
- Title of journal
- Journal of Applied Engineering Science
- Article number
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- First page
- 489
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 4
- ISSN
- 1821-3197
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Aircraft Design has three distinct phases, Conceptual, Preliminary and Detailed. In order to select viable designs at the Preliminary stage, aircraft control surface sizes need to be determined amidst a lack of detailed design information. This paper proposed a theoretical/empirical method that yields good results, and lends itself for convenient implementation as a computer algorithm. The methodology proposed is used for teaching aircraft design at Coventry at the Undergraduate Level, and has been used in interactive Aircraft Design Software (iADS), to be placed in public domain shortly. Further publications on aileron and rudder sizing have resulted from this work.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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