Active Camber Morphing Wings Based on Compliant Structures: an Aeroelastic Assessment

The paper summarizes the recent activities performed at Politenico di Milano in the framework of FP7NOVEMOR Project related to the application of morphing technologies and in particular to the variable camber concept. After a short reminder on the tools developed aiming at the design of variable camber morphing wings, the paper describes the main results obtained from the application of this morphing concept to a typical regional aircraft. Then, the preliminary results of the final aeroelastic assessment are reported. In particular the proposed multi–fidelity approach is briefly discussed together with the description of the tools and models adopted.