• DocumentCode
    3596379
  • Title

    Acoustic comparison of PET and Latex wings for flapping micro-air-vehicles

  • Author

    Lung-Jieh Yang ; Marimuthu, Suseendar

  • Author_Institution
    Mech. & Electromech. Eng., Tamkang Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    172
  • Lastpage
    174
  • Abstract
    This paper presents the hyper-elastic Latex film as the new material for flapping wings novelly. Compared to one of the conventional flapping wings using PET, the new Latex wing reduces the noise with 15.93 dB at least. Both wings have a wingspan of 20 cm and work at the flapping frequency of 13.3 Hz. The leading edge spars and the stiffened ribs of both wings are made of carbon fiber. This newly developed Latex wing is believed to be useful to the application of stealth micro-air-vehicle (MAV) in the future.
  • Keywords
    acoustic noise; aeroacoustics; aerospace components; autonomous aerial vehicles; carbon fibres; elasticity; noise abatement; polymer films; MAV; PET; acoustic comparison; carbon fiber; edge spars; flapping frequency; flapping microair-vehicles; flapping wings; hyper-elastic latex film; latex wing; noise reduction; stealth microair-vehicle; stiffened ribs; wingspan; Aerodynamics; Films; Noise; Noise reduction; Positron emission tomography; Vehicles; Latex; micro-air-vehilce (MAV); noise reduction;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS), 2015 IEEE 10th International Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NEMS.2015.7147403
  • Filename
    7147403