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February 6, 2026
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STUDY OF THE BENEFITS OF A SEMI-MORPHING WING CONCEPT

Publicated to: 32nd Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences Icas 2021. - 2021-01-01 (), DOI:

Authors:

Ruiz-Calavera LP; De Lucas-Bodas S; Funes-Sebastian DE
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Affiliations

Airbus Defence and Space - Author

Abstract

The concept of a semi-morphing wing is presented. Instead of elastically deforming the structure the adaptation of the wing geometry to the flight conditions is achieved by means of the deflection of a high number of complementary and redundant classical wing control surfaces. A complex flight controls system is designed to allow using these control surfaces as multi-objective devices, addressing in parallel aerodynamic efficiency, loads alleviation, and vehicle control while still ensuring safety of operation by means of appropriate flight control laws re-configuration in case of failures. The paper presents the benefits for the case of a turboprop driven regional aircraft.
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Keywords

AerodynamicsMorphing wingRegional aircraft

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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Germany.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (RUIZ CALAVERA, LUIS PABLO) .

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