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Flutter Characteristics ofAircraft Wing Considering Control Surface and Actuator Dynamics with Friction Nonlinearity

  • Lee, Seung-Jun (Department of Aerospace Engineering Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Lee, In (Department of Aerospace Engineering Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Shin, Won-Ho (Samsung Electro-Mechanics)
  • Published : 2007.06.30
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Abstract

Whenever the hinge axis of aircraft wing rotates, its stiffness varies. Also, there are nonlinearities in the connection of the actuator and the hinge axis, and it is necessary to inspect the coupled effects between the actuator dynamics and the hinge nonlinearity. Nonlinear aeroelastic characteristics are investigated by using the iterative V-g method. Time domain analyses are also performed by using Karpel's minimum state approximation technique. The doublet hybrid method(DHM) is used to calculate the unsteady aerodynamic forces in subsonic regions. Structural nonlinearity located in the load links of the actuator is assumed to be friction. The friction nonlinearity of an actuator is identified by using the describing function technique. The nonlinear flutter analyses have shown that the flutter characteristics significantly depends on the structural nonlinearity as well as the dynamic stiffness of an actuator. Therefore, the dynamic stiffness of an actuator as well as the nonlinear effect of hinge axis are important factors to determine the flutter stability.

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