FUTUREWINGS

Wings of the future

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITA DI PISA    more  Organization address address: Lungarno Pacinotti 43/44 city: PISA postcode: 56126 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Immacolata Cognome: Viva Email: send email Telefono: +39 050 2217833 Fax: +39 050 2218069
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Italy [IT]
Totale costo	816˙800 €
EC contributo	599˙150 €
Programma	FP7-TRANSPORT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Transport (including Aeronautics)
Code Call	FP7-AAT-2012-RTD-L0
Funding Scheme	CP-FP
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-06-01   -   2015-07-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITA DI PISA  Organization address address: Lungarno Pacinotti 43/44 city: PISA postcode: 56126 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Immacolata Cognome: Viva Email: send email Telefono: +39 050 2217833 Fax: +39 050 2218069	IT (PISA)	coordinator	198˙200.00
2	Smart Material GmbH  Organization address city: Dresden postcode: 1159 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Jan Cognome: Kunzmann Email: send email Telefono: +49 351 4977 145 Fax: +49 351 4977 146	DE (Dresden)	participant	217˙200.00
3	ICHROME LTD  Organization address address: SYLVAN WAY 16 city: BRISTOL postcode: BS9 2LF contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Luca Cognome: Lanzi Email: send email Telefono: +44 798 0214935	UK (BRISTOL)	participant	130˙800.00
4	PIAGGIO AERO INDUSTRIES SPA  Organization address address: Viale Castro Pretorio 116 city: ROMA postcode: 185 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Alessandro Cognome: Morando Email: send email Telefono: +39 010 6481304 Fax: +39 010 6481366	IT (ROMA)	participant	52˙950.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The project moves starting from a very simple concept: let us think of an airplane as a great body with its end structures that could have the possibility to change their shape as they had internal nerve endings and muscles. The aerodynamic shape of aircraft lifting surfaces must change during the flight, owing to the aerodynamic requirements of the different maneuvers (ascent and descent operations, yaw). Mobile surfaces are introduced in conventional wings to this purpose (ailerons, flaps, slats etc.), introducing at the same time inevitably additional weight, mechanisms, sources of vibrations and other well known limits. An interesting alternative to mobile surfaces could be represented by “self shaping wings”, i.e. wings the surface of which can be elastically deformed through its entire length, and managed in order to obtain the required lifting profile. Such wing performances could be obtained through the application of composite hybrid materials where layers of new generation of piezoelectric fibers are drowned, and trigged by relatively low voltage. Target of the research is the deep understanding of the technical feasibility and of the limits of such an application. Depending on the results, “self shaping wings” (or “Future Wings”) could be more deeply investigated and designed in order to replace ailerons, slats, tail wings, rudders and, probably, even flaps: the relevant technology could have really wide fields of applications (helicopter rotor blades, satellite panels, etc.). Project objectives will be pursued developing at first theoretical models and computational new generation algorithms aimed at designing, optimizing and afterwards manufacturing a scaled model of “Future Wing” on which experimental tests will be carried out in order to understand the viability of the original idea, which has the potential to bring a radical new approach to the design of flying vehicles lifting surfaces configuration.'