Michael I. Friswell
Swansea University
762 Papers
4.5K Citations
Michael I. Friswell is an academic researcher from Swansea University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Finite element method & Morphing. The author has an hindex of 73, co-authored 724 publications. Previous affiliations of Michael I. Friswell include Imperial College London & College of Engineering, Trivandrum.
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Papers
Optimising mission performance for a morphing MAV
C.S. Beaverstock,Rafic M. Ajaj,Michael I. Friswell +2 more
- 01 Sep 2013
TL;DR: An architecture for a low-fidelity, conceptual software framework to be used in assessment of Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) that implement morphing wing technology and results primarily show that both span and twist morphing alone do not provide significant aerodynamic benefits, but do reduce root bending moments which could potentially reduce weight and increase in mission performance.
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Local Optimisation of Anisotropic Composite Panels with T-Shape Stiffeners
JE Herencia,Paul M. Weaver,Michael I. Friswell +2 more
- 23 Apr 2007
TL;DR: In this article, a method to locally optimise anisotropic composite panels with T shape stiffeners is provided, where the optimisation problem is divided into two levels using Mathematical Programming (MP) and Genetic Algorithm (GA).
Quantifying the Correlation Between Measured and Computed Mode Shapes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a method whereby a set of computed mode shapes for a structure and set of measured mode shapes may be compared through the mass matrix, and the errors between the two are found to fall into three categories: (a) mutual orthogonality of the measured modes is not satisfied, (b) the sets of modal vectors do not span the same subspaces, and (c) the modes are not perfectly aligned with the common subspace.
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A shape memory alloy rod element based on the co-rotational formulation for nonlinear static analysis of tensegrity structures
TL;DR: In this paper, a shape memory alloy rod element is derived based on the co-rotational formulation, where rigid body modes are removed from the total deformations by employing a local coordinate system at element level, and hence, the major part of geometric nonlinearity is isolated.
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Effect of span-morphing on the longitudinal flight stability and control
C.S. Beaverstock,Rafic M. Ajaj,Michael I. Friswell,Wulf G. Dettmer,R. De Breuker,N.P.M. Werter +5 more
- 19 Aug 2013
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present results from a software framework to assess the potential benefits of span morphing in performance and efficiency, and an investigation of the effect of morphing on flight stability and control is presented.