1998 Technical Papers

Badre-Alam, A., Wang, K. and Gandhi, F., “Aeromechanical Stability Augmentation of Helicopters using Enhanced Active Constrained Layer (EACL) Treatment on Flex Beams,” Proceedings at the 5th SPIE Smart Structure and Material Symposium, San Diego, CA, 1998.

Brackbill, C., Lesieutre, G., Ruhl, E. and Smith, E., ” Characerization and Modeling of the Low Strain Amplitude and Frequency Dependent Behavior of Elastomeric Damper Materials,” Proceedings at the 39th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHA/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Long Beach, CA, AIAA # 98-1845, April 20-23, 1998.

Centolanza, L., “Refined Structural Modeling of Thick-Walled Closed Section Composite Beams,” Proceedings at the 39th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHA/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Long Beach, CA, April 20-23, 1998.

DeSmidt, H., Wang, K. and Smith, E., “Active Vibration Control of Rotorcraft Driveshaft-Airframe Dynamics,” Proceedings at the American Helicopter Society 54th Annual Forum, Washington, DC, May 20-22, 1998.

Gandhi, F. and Chopra, I., “An Aeroelastic Analysis Methodology for Bearingless Main Rotor Helicopters,” Journal of the American Helicopter Society, pp. 66-75, Jan 1998.

Geyer Jr., W., Smith, E. and Keller, J., “Aeroelastic Analysis of Transient Blade Dynamics During Shipboard Engage/Disengage Operations,” Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp.445-453, May-June 1998.

Hathaway, E. and Gandhi, F., “Individual Blade Control For Alleviation of Helicopter Ground Resonance,” Proceedings at the 39th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHA/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Long Beach, CA, April 1998.

Hebert, C. and Lesieutre, G., “Rotorcraft Blade Lag Damping using Highly Distributed Tuned Vibration Absorbers,” Proceedings at the 39th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHA/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Long Beach, CA, AIAA # 98-2001, April 20-23, 1998.

Horn, J., Calise, A.C., Prasad, J.V.R and O’Rourke, M., “Flight Envelope Cueing on a Tilt-Rotor Aircraft Using Neural Network Limit Prediction,” American Helicopter Society 54th Annual Forum, Washington, D.C., May 1998.

Horn, J., Calise, A.C. and Prasad, J.V.R, “Flight Envelope Limiting Systems Using Neural Networks,” AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, Boston, MA, August 1998.

Kang, H. and Smith, E., “Transient Response Analysis of Gimballed Tiltrotors During Engage and Disengage Operations,” Proceedings at the 39th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHA/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Long Beach, CA, AIAA # 98-2007, April 20-23, 1998.

Keller, J. and Smith, E., “An Experimental and Theoretical Correlation of Helicopter Rotor Blade-Droop Stop Impacts,” accepted, Journal of Aircraft, Sept. 1998.

Laik, O. and Morris, P., “Direct Simulation of Acoustic Scattering by Aircraft Wings and Bodies,” Proceedings at the 4th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, Toulouse, France, AIAA # 98-2379, June 2-4, 1998.

Lesieutre, G.A., “Damping Technology for U.S. Army Applications: Status and Needs,” presented at the ARO Damping Workshop, Blacksburg, VA, October, 1998.

Liu, J. and Long, L., “Higher Order Accurate Ship Airwake Predictions for the Helicopter/Ship Interface Problem,” Proceedings at the American Helicopter Society 54th Annual Forum, Washington, DC, May 20-22, 1998.

Long, L. N., Morris, P. J., Morooney, K. and Kellogg, S., “The Teaching and Learning of High Performance Computing,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 87, No. 5, 1998.

Marathe, S., Gandhi, F. and Wang, K., “Helicopter Blade Response and Aeromechanical Stability with a Magnetorheological Fluid Based Lag Damper,”Proceedings at the 5th SPIE Smart Structure and Material Symposium, San Diego, CA, 1998.

Nwobi O., Long, L.N. and Micci, M.M., “Molecular dynamics studies of thermophysical properties of supercritical ethylene,” AIAA paper 98-2935, AIAA Thermophysics Conference, New Mexico, 1998.

Smith, E., Keller, J. and Kang, H., “Recent Developments in the Analytical Investigation of Shipboard Rotorcraft Engage and Disengage Operations,”Proceedings of the 83rd Fluid Dynamics Panel Symposium on Fluid Dynamics Problems of Vehicles Operating Near or in the Air-Sea Interface, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 5-8, 1998.