Mordechay KARPEL


Sanford Kaplan Chair in Aerospace Engineering


BIOGRAPHICAL DATA

b. Israel 1947. B.Sc. Technion, 1971. M.Sc. Tel Aviv, 1975. Ph.D. Stanford, 1980. Engineer at Israel Aircraft Industries, 1971-1987. At Technion since 1988. Professor since 1999.

MAIN INTERESTS

Aeroelasticity and structural dynamics, interaction with control systems, analytical and optimization methods.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

"Time-domain aeroservoelastic modeling using weighted unsteady aerodynamic forces", AIAA J. of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, 13, 1, Jan. 1990, pp. 30-37.

"Reduced-order aeroelastic models via dynamic residualization", AIAA J. of Aircraft, 27, May 1990, pp. 449-455.

"Multidisciplinary optimization of aeroservoelastic systems using reduced-size models", AIAA J. of Aircraft, 29, 5, Sept. 1992, pp. 939-946.

"Stress considerations in reduced-size aeroelastic optimization", AIAA Journal, 33, 4, 1995, pp. 716-722 (with L. Brainin).

"Fictitious mass element in structural dynamics", AIAA Journal, 34, 3, 1996, pp. 607-613 (with D. Raveh).

"Ground vibration tests of space-structure components using boundary masses", J. of Spacecraft and Rockets, 33, 2, 1996, pp. 272-277 (with D. Raveh and S. Ricci).

"Minimum-state unsteady aerodynamic approximations with flexible constraints", J. of Aircraft, 33, 6, 1996, pp. 1190-1196 (with E. Strul).

"Modal-based enhancement of integrated structural design optimization schemes", J. of Aircraft, 35, 3, 1998, pp. 437-444.

"Reduced-order models for integrated aeroservoelastic optimization", J. of Aircraft, 36, 1, 1999, pp. 146-155.

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E-mail: karpel@aemoti.technion.ac.il