1. Introduction. 2. Structural Aspects: Stiffness and Flexibility. 3. Divergence. 4. Control Reversal. 5. Structural Dynamics. 6. Classical Flutter. 7. Single-Degree of Freedom Flutter. Appendix A. Lumped-Parameter Coupled Bending and Twisting. Appendix B. Flutter of the Representative Section with Control Surface.
Biography
James DeLaurier has worked as an aerospace engineer, consultant, and professor. He received his PhD from Stanford University and has worked at McDonnell Aircraft, the NASA Ames Research Center, the Sheldahl Company, and Battelle Memorial Institute. Until his retirement in 2006, Dr. DeLaurier was a professor at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS). His research topics have included aircraft design, lighter-than-air flight vehicles (airships and aerostats), flapping-wing aircraft, and remotely-piloted microwave-powered aircraft.
