Fully morphing aircraft structures: studies from the Department of Aerospace Engineering, METU, Ankara, Turkey

2018-01-01
This study details the fully morphing aerospace structures by giving special references to the contributions made by the Department of Aerospace Engineering team of Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
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Citation Formats
Y. Yaman, “Fully morphing aircraft structures: studies from the Department of Aerospace Engineering, METU, Ankara, Turkey,” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE AVIATION, pp. 1–10, 2018, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/53464.