Preface

This proceeding contains the scholarly papers presented in the 3rd International Conference on Aeronautical, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (AAME 2020) held in February, 2020 in Bangkok, Thailand. Submissions to the conference have been reviewed by members of the Technical Committee consisted of professors and senior academics from reputable international universities in Australia, Asia, Europe and South Africa. The papers in this proceeding have passed the vigorous review process and amended to the satisfaction of reviewers. The face-to-face presentations have also undergone critiques by expert audience in the conference. It is on this basis that the published papers in this proceeding are good references to future research investigations and analyses. Papers in the conference can be categorised according to the themes of the conference: aeronautical, aerospace and mechanical engineering. It is worth to note that the purpose of categorisation with these themes is only to help readers to search for papers. The proceeding as a whole presents a consistent focus on aerodynamics, aerostructures, mechanical strength and space exploration technologies. The distribution of papers among these themes is close to balanced, i.e. 9 papers in aeronautical, 6 papers in aerospace and 8 papers in mechanical engineering. Among the 9 papers in aeronautical engineering, structural integrity of aerostructures such as airframe and wing are the most common topics. Another common topic is aerodynamics on aeronautical components which extends into analysis of forces and loading. The novel analyses exhibit in these papers push the boundary of knowledge and enable better aircraft design and manufacture. The 6 papers in aerospace engineering are mostly concerning satellite design, operations and communication. Of particular interest is a paper on aerodynamics performance of hypersonic vehicle and another paper on digital twins. Both papers present innovative concepts in the objective of space exploration. As the technological ability of the world increases, there is evidence that many countries are increasing their research activities in space. The number of papers in this conference is encouraging. The remaining 8 papers are grouped under mechanical engineering theme. Typical mechanical papers such as the lifting mechanism and tie rod of landing gears involve analysis of vibration or shock to mechanisms. It is also nice to see more fundamental mechanical engineering problems such as the research on flatness of large deployable antenna are investigated. Likewise, the research investigating flow-induced vibration of prisms has good potential to develop into more accurate prediction of mechanism interaction with fluid flow. The research rigour and strong theoretical fundamentals demonstrated in the publications in this conference make this proceeding a valuable repository of research topics in aeronautical, aerospace and mechanical engineering. I would like to thank the conference committee, the conference secretariat, keynote speakers and all participants for their hard work making this conference a success. Professor John P.T. Mo Conference Chair, AAME 2020 BSc(Engg), MSc(Engg), PhD(Loughborough), FIEAust CPEng NER APEC Engineer IntPE(Aus), CEng, FIMechE, MHKIE, MFIE School of Engineering RMIT University February 2020