Selected Patents and Invention Disclosures

Selected Publications: 2001-2005

Ruzicka, Gene C.; and Hodges, Dewey H.: “Application of the Mixed Finite Element Method to Rotor Blade Modal Reduction,” Mathematical and Computer Modelling, vol. 33, no. 10-11, 2001, pp. 1177 – 1202.

Estep, Donald J.; Hodges, Dewey H.; and Warner, Michael S.: “Solution of a Launch Vehicle Trajectory Problem by an Adaptive Finite Element Method,” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, vol. 190, no. 35-36, June 2001, pp. 4677 – 4690.

Hodges, Dewey H.: “Lateral-Torsional Flutter of a Deep Cantilever Loaded by a Lateral Follower Force at the Tip,” Journal of Sound and Vibration, vol. 247, no. 1, Oct. 11, 2001, pp. 175 – 183.

Hodges, Dewey H.; Patil, Mayuresh J.; and Chae, Seungmook, “Effect of Thrust on Bending-Torsion Flutter of Wings,” Journal of Aircraft, vol. 39, no. 2, Mar.-Apr. 2002, pp. 371 – 376.

Patil, Mayuresh J.; and Hodges, Dewey H., “Static Output Feedback Control of Nonlinear Aeroelastic Response of a Slender Wing,” Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, vol. 25, no. 2, Mar.-Apr. 2002, pp. 302 – 308.

Volovoi, Vitali V.; and Hodges, Dewey H.: “Single- and Multi-celled Composite Thin-Walled Beams,” AIAA Journal, vol. 40, no. 5, May 2002, pp. 960 – 965.

Yu, Wenbin; Hodges, Dewey H.; Volovoi, Vitali, V; and Cesnik, Carlos E. S.: “On Timoshenko-Like Modeling of Initially Curved and Twisted Composite Beams,” International Journal of Solids and Structures, vol. 39, no. 19, 2002, pp. 5101 – 5121.

Yu, Wenbin; Hodges, Dewey H.; and Volovoi, Vitali V.: “Asymptotic Construction of Reissner-like Composite Plate Theory with Accurate Strain Recovery,” International Journal of Solids and Structures, vol. 39, no. 20, 2002, pp. 5185 – 5203.

Yu, Wenbin; Hodges, Dewey H.; and Volovoi, Vitali V.: “Asymptotic Generalization of Reissner-Mindlin Theory: Accurate Three-Dimensional Recovery for Composite Shells,” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, vol. 191, no. 44, Oct. 2002, pp. 5087 – 5109.

Yu, Wenbin; Volovoi, Vitali V.; and Hodges, Dewey H.: “Validation of the Variational Asymptotic Beam Sectional (VABS) Analysis,” AIAA Journal, vol. 40, no. 10, Oct. 2002, pp. 2105 – 2112.

Lee, Donghoon; Hodges, Dewey H.; and Patil, Mayuresh J.: “Multi-Flexible-Body Dynamic Analysis of Horizontal-Axis Wind Turbines,” Wind Energy, vol. 5, no. 4, Oct./Dec. 2002, pp. 281 – 300.

Bajodah, Abdulrahman H.; Hodges, Dewey H.; and Chen, Ye-Hwa: “A New Form of Kane’s Equations of Motion for Constrained Systems,” Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, vol. 26, no. 1, Jan.-Feb. 2003, pp. 79 – 88.

Yu, Wenbin; Hodges, Dewey H.; and Volovoi, Vitali V.: “Asymptotically Accurate 3-D Recovery from Reissner-like Composite Plate Finite Elements,” Computers and Structures, vol. 81, no. 7, 2003, pp. 439 – 454.

Hodges, Dewey H.: “Contact Stress from Asymptotic Reissner-Mindlin Plate Theory,” AIAA Journal, vol. 41, no. 2, Feb. 2003, pp. 329 – 331.

Hodges, Dewey H.: “Geometrically-Exact, Intrinsic Theory for Dynamics of Curved and Twisted Anisotropic Beams,” AIAA Journal, vol. 41, no. 6, June 2003, pp. 1131 – 1137.

Ruzicka, Gene C.; and Hodges, Dewey H.: “A Mixed Finite Element Treatment of Rotor Blade Elongation,” Journal of the American Helicopter Society, vol. 48, no. 3, July 2003, pp. 167 – 175.

Friedmann, Peretz P.; and Hodges, Dewey H.: “Rotary Wing Aeroelasticity – A Historical Perspective,” Journal of Aircraft, vol. 40, no. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2003, pp 1019 – 1046.

Yu, Wenbin; and Hodges, Dewey H.: “A Geometrically Nonlinear Shear Deformation Theory for Composite Shells,” Journal of Applied Mechanics, vol. 71, no. 1, 2004, pp. 1 – 9.

Yu, Wenbin; and Hodges, Dewey H.: “Elasticity Solutions versus Asymptotic Sectional Analysis of Homogeneous, Isotropic, Prismatic Beams,” Journal of Applied Mechanics, vol. 71, no. 1, 2004, pp. 15 – 23.

Mayuresh J. Patil, Rudolph N. Yurkovich, and Dewey H. Hodges: “Incorrectness of the k Method for Flutter Calculations,” Journal of Aircraft, vol. 41, no. 2, Mar.-Apr. 2004, pp. 402 – 405.

Yu, Wenbin; and Hodges, Dewey H.: “An Asymptotic Approach for Thermoelastic Analysis of Laminated Composite Plates,” Journal of Engineering Mechanics, vol. 130, no. 5, 2004, pp. 531 – 540.

Yu, Wenbin; and Hodges, Dewey H.: “A Simple Thermopiezoelastic Model for Smart Composite Plates with Accurate Stress Recovery,” Smart Materials and Structures, vol. 13, no. 4, 2004, pp. 926 – 938.

Hodges, Dewey H.; and Patil, Mayuresh J.: “Correlation of Geometrically-Exact Beam Theory with the Princeton Data,” Journal of the American Helicopter Society, vol. 49, no. 3, July 2004, pp. 357 – 360.

Patil, M. J. and Hodges, D. H., “On the Importance of Aerodynamic and Structural Geometrical Nonlinearities in Aeroelastic Behavior of High-Aspect-Ratio Wings,” Journal of Fluids and Structures, vol. 19, no. 7, Aug. 2004, pp. 905 – 915.

Bajodah, Abdulrahman H.; Hodges, Dewey H.; and Chen, Ye-Hwa: “Nonminimal Kane’s Generalized Impulse-Momentum Relations,” Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, vol. 27, no. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2004, pp. 1088 – 1092.

Yu, Wenbin; and Hodges, Dewey H.: “Mathematical Construction of an Engineering Thermopiezoelastic Model for Smart Composite Shells,” Smart Materials and Structures, vol. 14, no. 1, 2005, pp. 43 – 55.

Yu, Wenbin; and Hodges, Dewey H.: “Generalized Timoshenko Theory of the Variational Asymptotic Beam Sectional Analysis,” Journal of the American Helicopter Society, vol. 50, no. 1, 2005, pp. 46 – 56.

Bajodah, Abdulrahman H.; Hodges, Dewey H.; and Chen, Ye-Hwa: “Inverse Dynamics of Servo-Constraints Based on the Generalized Inverse,” Nonlinear Dynamics, vol. 39, nos. 1/2, 2005, pp. 179 – 196.

Lee, Donghoon; and Hodges, Dewey H.: “Improved Numerical Scheme for Linearized Stability Analysis of Nonlinear Periodic Systems,” Journal of the American Helicopter Society, vol. 50, no. 2, 2005, pp. 206 – 210.

Yu, Wenbin; Liao, Lin; Hodges, Dewey H.; and Volovoi, Vitali V.: “Theory of Initially Twisted, Composite, Thin-walled Beams,” Thin-Walled Structures, vol. 43, no. 8, 2005, pp. 1296 – 1311.

Yu, W.; Hodges D. H.; Volovoi, V. V.; and Fuchs, E. D.: “A Generalized Vlasov Theory for Composite Beams,” Thin-Walled Structures, vol. 43, no. 9, 2005, pp. 1493 – 1511.

Bajodah, Abdulrahman H.; Hodges, Dewey H.; and Chen, Ye-Hwa: “Nonminimal Kane’s Equations of Motion for Nonlinearly Constrained Multibody Dynamical Systems,” Multibody System Dynamics, vol. 14, no. 2, 2005, pp. 155 – 187.