Original Article
  • Highly Efficient Structural Optimization of Composite Rotor Blades Using Bézier Curves

  • Jae-Seong Bae*, Sung-Nam Jung*†

  • * Department of Aerospace Information Engineering, Konkuk University

  • Bézier 곡선을 이용한 고효율 복합재료 블레이드의 다중 최적 구조 설계

  • 배재성* · 정성남*†

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Correspondence to

  • Sung-Nam Jung

  • Department of Aerospace Information Engineering, Konkuk University

  • E-mail: snjung@konkuk.ac.kr