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http://dx.doi.org/10.7734/COSEIK.2012.25.1.051

A Study on Configuration Optimization for Rotorcraft Fuel Cells based on Neural Network  

Kim, Hyun-Gi (한국항공우주연구원 항공계통팀)
Kim, Sung-Chan (한국항공우주연구원 항공계통팀)
Lee, Jong-Won (한국항공우주연구원 미래비행체연구팀)
Hwang, In-Hee (한국항공우주연구원 항공구조팀)
Publication Information
Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea / v.25, no.1, 2012 , pp. 51-56 More about this Journal
Abstract
Crashworthy fuel cells have been widely implemented to rotorcraft and rendered a great contribution for improving the survivability of crews and passengers. Since the embryonic stage of military rotorcraft history began, the US army has developed and practised a detailed military specification documenting the unique crashworthiness requirements for rotorcraft fuel cells to prevent most fatality due to post-crash fire. Foreign manufacturers have followed their long term experience to develop their fuel cells, and have reflected the results of crash impact tests on the trial-and-error based design and manufacturing procedures. Since the crash impact test itself takes a long-term preparation efforts together with costly fuel cell specimens, a series of numerical simulations of the crash impact test with digital mock-ups is necessary even at the early design stage to minimize the possibility of trial-and-error with full-scale fuel cells. In the present study a number of numerical simulations on fuel cell crash impact tests are performed with a crash simulation software, Autodyn. The resulting equivalent stresses are further analysed to evaluate a number of appropriate design parameters and the artificial neural network and simulated annealing method are simultaneously implemented to optimize the crashworthy performance of fuel cells.
Keywords
fuel cell; crashworthiness; crash impact test; US military specification; artificial neural network; simulated annealing;
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