ABSTRACT
A bstract Market research predicts for the aircraft industrie a large growth in numbers o f passengers as well in airfreight rate. Leading to an increased competition for the European aircraft industrie, the efficiency o f new aircrafts has to be improved drastically. One approach among others is the aerodynamical optimization o f the wing. The fixed wing is optimized only for one design point. The flight conditions described by the parameters altitude, Mach number and aircraft weight vary continuously during the mission o f the aircraft. Therefore, the aircraft is just temporary near the chosen design point. To compensate for this disadvantage, an „adaptive wing“ for optimal adaptation and variation o f the profile geometry to the actual flight conditions w ill be developed. Daimler Benz Aerospace Airbus, Daimler Benz Research and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) working as project partners on concepts for a variable camber and a local spoiler bump. In this paper structural concepts for both objectives developed by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) w ill be presented. The concepts are designed under the aspect o f adaptive structural systems and require a high integration o f actuators, sensor and controllers in the actual structure.
