Wind tunnel testing of additive manufactured aircraft components

• Main Authors: Teo, Z. W., New, T. H., Li, Shiya, Pfeiffer, T., Nagel, B., Gollnick, V.
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Additive Manufacturing; Wind Tunnel Testing; DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88740; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/46130
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Purpose ‒ This paper reports upon the physical distortions associated with the use of additive manufactured components for wind tunnel testing and procedures adopted to correct for them. Design/methodology/approach ‒ Wings of a joined-wing test aircraft configuration were fabricated with additive ma...