6 articles in this issue
Angelo Stolfi,Paolo Gasbarri,Marco Sabatini
In the near future robotic systems will be playing an increasingly important role in space applications such as repairing, refuelling, re-orbiting spacecraft and cleaning up the increasing amount of space debris. Space Manipulator Systems (SMSs) are robot... see more
Sergio De Rosa,Gary Koopmann,Francesco Marulo
In transportation engineering, there is the need of having quick and reliable tools for estimating the acoustic power radiated by a given elastic surfaces. Normally, the computational and experimental tools, or their combination, are based on CPU time-con... see more
Carl Knowlen,Pascal Bauer,Tarek Bengherbia,Yufeng Yao,Adam P Bruckner,Marc Giraud
Advances made to the unsteady, one-dimensional (1-D) modeling of the thermally choked ram accelerator thrust-Mach number characteristics include the use of real-gas equations of state to account for the compressibility eects of the combustion products. Eq... see more
Andrea Alaimo,Antonio Esposito,Calogero Orlando,Giovanni Tesoriere
The present paper deals with the pilot mental workload estimation in a simulated fixed wing aircraft environment. A full flight simulator of the CESSNA C560 XLS is used to ensure a high fidelity flight experience in order to evaluate pilot performance. A ... see more
Aniello Riccio,Angela Russo,Antonio Raimondo,Andrea Sellitto
In this work, the delamination onset and propagation in composite panels with induced defects is numerically investigated by means of a robust numerical procedure, called SMXB-FB and implemented in ANSYS® FEM code by Ansys Parametric Design Language. The ... see more
Karim Abu Salem,Vincenzo Binante,Vittorio Cipolla,Marco Maganzi
PARSIFAL is a Horizon 2020 project, started on May 2017, with the aim to design an innovative aircraft, based on the "PrandtlPlane" (PrP) conguration, for the civil aviation of the future. The PrP conguration allows us to reduce thefuel consumption and th... see more