• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.492-497
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• 2011

Helicopter uses a rotor system to generate lift, thrust and forces, and its aerodynamic environment is generally complex. Unsteady aerodynamic environment arises such as blade vortex interaction. This unsteady aerodynamic environment induces vibratory aerodynamic loads and high aeroacoustic noise. Those are at N times the rotor blade revolutions (N/rev). But conventional rotor control system composed of pitch links and swash plate is not capable of adjusting such vibratory loads because its control is restricted to 1/rev. Many active control methodologies have been examined to alleviate the problem. The blade using active control device manipulates the blade pitch angle at arbitrary frequencies. In this paper, Active Trailing-edge Flap blade, which is one of the active control methods, is designed to modify the unsteady aerodynamic loads. Active Trailing-edge Flap blade uses a trailing edge flap manipulated by an actuator to change camber of the airfoil. Piezoelectric actuators are installed inside the blade to manipulate the trailing edge flap.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.46 no.7
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• pp.542-550
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• 2018

This paper presents design of a bearingless main rotor of SNUF (Seoul National University Flap) blade equipped with active trailing-edge flap to reduce the hub vibratory loads during helicopter forward flight. For that purpose, sectional design of the flexbeam is carried out using the thin-walled composite material rotating beam vibration analysis program (CORBA77_MEMB) in EDISON. Using the multi-body dynamics analysis program, DYMORE, blade dynamic characteristics and those of the loads control are examined using the active trailing-edge flap in terms of the flexbeam sectional design.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.499-505
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• 2012

Vibratory loads imposed by the rotating blade upon the fuselage has been one of major obstacles in rotorcrafts. A new concept of rotor blade is currently developed to adopt an Active Trailing-edge Flap (ATF) to alleviate such obstacles. The flap is mounted at 65~85% spanwise location from the rotor hub. The nominal rotational speed of the blade is as high as 1,528 RPM, to match the required tip Mach number. Structural integrity is one of the important design aspects to be maintained and monitored in this special type of rotor. This is due to that many detailed components, which drive the flap, are inserted inside the rotating blade. To conduct its structural design and analysis, CAMRAD-II and the one-dimensional beam analysis are used. At the same time, three-dimensional finite element analysis are also used, such as MSC. PATRAN/NASTRAN, in order to analyze the details of the present active blade. As a result, comparable characteristics for the present rotor are predicted by both approaches.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2014.10a
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• pp.916-921
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• 2014

In this paper, an improved small-scaled blade prototype was designed with the flap-driving mechanism classified as an active vibration reduction method, in order to reduce vibratory load in the helicopter. In detail, the previous Active Trailing-Edge Flap based on piezoelectric actuator, called SNUF(Seoul National University Flap), failed to achieve the target value (${\pm}4^{\circ}$) of the flap deflection angle. Therefore, the flap-driving mechanism design was improved, and a new piezoactuator was selected to accomplish the target value of the flap deflection angle in both static and rotating situations.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.449-452
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 소형 플랩을 채용하여 능동하중제어를 이루고자하는 풍력 블레이드의 적용을 염두해 둔 에어포일 설계를 수행하였다. 블레이드 팁 부분에 플랩을 적용하고자 하는 경우 플랩의 구동장치, 연결 부위 등의 장치 설치를 위한 공간이 블레이드 내부에 필요하다. 이를 위하여 기존의 에어포일의 성능을 유지하면서 뒷전의 두께비가 증가된 에어포일 형상의 설계가 필요하다. 최적설계를 위하여는 MIGA(Multi- Island Genetic Algorithm)을 채용하였으며 에어포일의 성능 계산을 위하여는 Xfoil을 결합하였다. 또한 형상 생성을 위하여 Hick-Henne 형상 함수를 이용하였다. 위와 같은 방법으로 설계된 에어포일은 코드길이 85% 위치에서 두께비 6.3%,양항비 133을 가지게 되어 기본으로 설정한 DU180 에어포일에 비해 성능과 필요 두께비를 모두 능가하는 에어포일이 되었다.

• New & Renewable Energy
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.29-32
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 소형 플랩을 채용하여 능동하중제어를 이루고자하는 풍력블레이드의 적용을 염두해 둔 에어포일 설계를 수행하였다. 블레이드 팁 부분에 플랩을 적용하고자 하는 경우 플랩의 구동 장치, 연결 부위 등의 장치 설치를 위한 공간이 블레이드 내부에 필요하다. 이를 위하여 기존의 에어포일의 성능을 유지하면서 뒷전의 두께비가 증가된 에어포일 형상의 설계가 필요하다. 최적설계를 위하여는 MIGA(Multi-Island Genetic Algorithm)을 채용하였으며 에어포일의 성능 계산을 위하여는 Xfoil을 결합하였다. 또한 형상 생성을 위하여 Hick-Henne 형상 함수를 이용하였다. 위와 같은 방법으로 설계된 에어포일은 코드길이 85% 위치에서 두께비 6.3%,양항비 133을 가지게 되어 기본으로 설정한 DU180에어포일에 비해 성능과 필요 두께비를 모두 능가하는 에어포일이 되었다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.23 no.7
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• pp.645-653
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• 2013

Seoul National University flap(SNUF) blade is a small-scale rotor blade incorporating a small trailing-edge flap control surface driven by piezoelectric actuators at higher harmonics for vibration attenuation. Initially, the blade was designed using two-dimensional cross-section analysis and geometrically exact one-dimensional beam analysis, and its material configuration was finalized. A flap-deflection angle of ${\pm}4^{\circ}$ was established as the criterion for enhanced vibration reduction based on an earlier simulation. The flap-linkage mechanism was designed and static bench tests were conducted for verifying the performance of the flap-actuation mechanism. Different versions of test beds were developed and tested with the designed flap and the selected APA 200M piezoelectric actuators. Through significant improvements, a maximum deflection of ${\pm}3.7^{\circ}$ was achieved. High-frequency experiments were conducted for evaluating the performance, and the transfer function of the test bed was determined experimentally. With the static tests almost complete, the rotor power required for testing the blade in a whirl tower (centrifugal environment) was calculated, and further preparations are underway.

• Transactions of the KSME C: Technology and Education
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.183-191
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• 2015

In this study, the finite element analysis was carried out to investigate dynamic characteristics of the AGF(Active Gurney Flap) which is under development for reducing vibration and noise of the helicopter rotor system. The Gurney flap is a kind of small flat plate, mounted normal to the lower surface of the airfoil near to the trailing edge. An electric motor, L-shaped linkages and flap parts were integrated into a rotor bade, and 3~5/rev control was given to the AGF to reduce the vibration in the fixed frame. Thus, an explicit time integration method was adopted to investigate the dynamic response of the AGF with considering both centrifugal force due to the rotor rotation and active control input, and it can be seen that the vertical displacement of the AGF was satisfied to meet the design requirement.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.326-331
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• 2007

This paper conducts a vibratory loads reduction analysis of an Advanced Active Trailing-edge Flap (AATF) blade utilizing single crystal piezoelectric actuators. For an AATF blade, a new L-L piezostack actuator using single crystal PMN-PT materials is designed. The AATF blade is designed to have similar characteristics to the Advanced Active Twist Rotor (AATR) blade. The active trailingedge flap is assumed to be 20% of the blade span and 15% of the chord, located at 75% of the blade radius. In order to conduct the vibratory loads reduction analysis of the AATF blade in forward flight, DYMORE, a multi-body dynamics analysis code, is used. The simulation result shows that the hub vibratory loads may be reduced by approximately 89% even with a much lower input-voltage when comparing with the other active rotor systems.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.49 no.8
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• pp.649-660
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• 2021

Through analytical method based on S-76 model, the level of rotor hub vibration reduction was analyzed according to higher harmonic actuating by individual blade control. The higher harmonic actuating method for individual blades was divided into a method of generating an additional actuating force from the pitch-link in the rotating part and generating actuating force through the active trailing edge flap control of the blade. In the 100kts forward flight conditions, the hub load analysis was performed by changing the phase angle of 15 degree for the 2P/3P/4P/5P harmonic actuation for individual blades. Through the harmonic actuation results, the sensitivity of the rotor system according to the actuating conditions was analyzed, and the T-matrix representing the characteristics of the rotor system was derived based on this analysis result. And through this T-matrix, optimal higher harmonic actuating condition was derived to minimize hub vibration level for flight condition. In addition, the effect on the performance of the rotor system and the pitch-link load under minimum hub vibration condition, as well as the noise influence through the noise analysis were confirmed.