Aeroelastic tailoring is defined as "the embodiment of directional stiffness into an aircraft structural design to control aeroelastic deformation, static or dynamic, in such a fashion as to affect the aerodynamic and structural performance of that aircraft in a beneficial way",[1] or "passive aeroelastic control".[2] Objectives associated with aeroelastic tailoring include weight minimization, flutter, divergence, stress, roll reversal, control effectiveness, lift, drag, skin buckling, and fatigue.[3]
- ^ Shirk, M., Hertz, T., Weisshaar, T., "Aeroelastic Tailoring – Theory, Practice, Promise", Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 6-18, 1986.
- ^ Weisshaar, T., Aircraft Aeroelastic Design and Analysis, 1995
- ^ Jutte, Christine; Stanford, Bret K. (1 April 2014). "Aeroelastic Tailoring of Transport Aircraft Wings: State-of-the-Art and Potential Enabling Technologies". Retrieved 19 December 2021.
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