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Ta-Kang Yeh1 [1] Department of Real Estate and Built Environment, National Taipei University, New Taipei City, Taiwan Introduction GNSS (Global Navigation…
Abstract A process of support design for wind tunnel models and the evaluation of interferences effect are described in this…
Abstract To study the physiological effects of airport noise exposure on organisms, Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were exposed in soundproof chambers…
Abstract This chapter deals with the position control of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) when quadrotor’s linear velocity is unavailable.…
Abstract Unmanned helicopters (UHs) develop quickly because of their ability to hover and low speed flight. Facing different work conditions,…
Abstract European Union is involving increasing amount of resources on research projects that will dramatically change the costs of building…
Abstract The flight actuation system plays important role in the accurate guidance of the flight vehicles. The actuators driving the…
Abstract Active flow control has recently received an increasing attention since it allows to directly manipulate the flow-field around a…
Abstract Modifications on the intermediate turbine duct in order to reduce noise emissions by changing interaction frequencies and/or modes capable…
It is difficult to avoid thunderstorm regions by aircraft, so that on average every commercial airliner is struck by lightning once per year. Defining test and design criteria of aircraft is becoming important since aircraft safety is increasingly dependent on electronic equipment and the development of new materials (carbon composites, etc.) to replace the metallic airframes. In-flight statistics show that most strikes occurred 3-5 km above sea level, where the temperature is ~ 0C (Uman & Rakov, 2003; Larsson, 2002). There are two different types of lightning strikes to aircraft. The first type is that the aircraft initiates the lightning discharge when it is found in the intense electric field region of a thundercloud, and the second is the interception by the aircraft of an approaching lightning leader. The mechanism for lightning initiation by aircraft is often explained using the “bidirectional leader” theory (Clifford & Casemir,…