Overview of NASA's Adaptive Structures Program

Wada, Ben; Venneri, Sammuel

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Overview of NASA's Adaptive Structures Program

Wada, Ben·Venneri, Sammuel

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The paper reviews NASA's research program, flight experiments, and flight application related to Adaptive Structures. Emphasis is placed on results from both experimental and flight hardware test programs that helps validate its theoretical performance. The paper includes the role of Adaptive Structures to meet NASA's current and future technology and programmatic needs.

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Wada, Ben, Venneri, Sammuel. 1993-10-22. Overview of NASA's Adaptive Structures Program. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20210004571

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