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Rigid and Elastic Articulated Rotating Composite Blades

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In Chaps. 5 and 6, the nonlinear elasto-dynamics of rotating hingeless (cantilever) blades was analyzed. Contrary to hingeless blades that cannot perform rigid body motions, in order to reduce moment loads that are induced at the root, in many helicopters blades are articulated. Analyzing the dynamics of these articulated or hinged blades requires the inclusion of rigid body motions as a new set of unknown variables.

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    Mehrdaad Ghorashi

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Ghorashi, M. (2016). Rigid and Elastic Articulated Rotating Composite Blades. In: Statics and Rotational Dynamics of Composite Beams. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14959-2_7

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