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The static behavior of structurally coupled composite blades is investigated analytically and experimentally in this paper. A model, based on the use of Euler angles, is developed that can account for the presence of arbitrarily large deflections without the need for any ordering scheme. A simple iterative finite-difference solution procedure is then presented. Some experiments using thin flat composite cantilevered beams are also performed, and the data obtained compare well with the results from the analysis.
Minguet et al. (Sat,) studied this question.