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Finite Element Model Building Procedure of an External Mounting Pod for Structural Dynamic Characteristics Analysis of an Aircraft (항공기 구조 동특성 해석을 위한 외부 장착 포드의 유한요소모델 구축 절차)

  • Lee, Jong-Hak;Ryu, Gu-Hyun;Yang, Sung-Chul;Jung, Dae-Yoon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2011.10a
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    • pp.72-77
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    • 2011
  • In this study, the natural frequencies and mode shape of an external mounting pod were verified using the modal analysis and modal testing technique for a pod mounted on an aircraft. The procedure associated with the FEM building of an external mounted pod to predict the dynamic behavior of aircraft structures is described. The simplified FEM reflecting the results of the modal testing of a pod is built through the optimization, applied to the structural dynamic model of an Aircraft, used to verified the stability of vibration and flutter of an aircraft.

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EDISON Co-rotational Plane Beam Transient analysis solver를 이용한 위험 Gust profile 역-추적 알고리즘 개발

  • Jeong, Ji-Seop;Kim, Se-Il;Sin, Sang-Jun
    • Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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    • 2017.03a
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    • pp.259-269
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    • 2017
  • Gust load is a very important load factor in designing various structures of an aircraft and judging its stability. This is because the blast effect on the aircraft in operation increases the risk of damage to the structure of the aircraft and causes a negative impact such as shortening the fatigue life by generating vibration. Particularly in the case of wing, a change in angle of attack is caused by gust load, and an additional lift acts on the wing, thereby being exposed to various excitational environments. Severe structural damage to the aircraft may occur if the natural frequencies of the aircraft wing are close to or coincident with the frequencies of the gust load applied to the wing. Recent trends of research include flight dynamics analysis considering discontinuous gusts or structural optimization of the blades under gust load. A number of studies have been conducted to interpret gust load response in consideration of irregularities in gusts. In this paper, we tried to imagine the situation of the aircraft subjected to the gust load as realistic as possible, and proposed an algorithm to track back the critical gust profile according to given aircraft characteristics from the viewpoint of preliminary engineering prediction.

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Application of aerospace structural models to marine engineering

  • Pagani, A.;Carrera, E.;Jamshed, R.
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.219-235
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    • 2017
  • The large container ships and fast patrol boats are complex marine structures. Therefore, their global mechanical behaviour has long been modeled mostly by refined beam theories. Important issues of cross section warping and bending-torsion coupling have been addressed by introducing special functions in these theories with inherent assumptions and thus compromising their robustness. The 3D solid Finite Element (FE) models, on the other hand, are accurate enough but pose high computational cost. In this work, different marine vessel structures have been analysed using the well-known Carrera Unified Formulation (CUF). According to CUF, the governing equations (and consequently the finite element arrays) are written in terms of fundamental nuclei that do not depend on the problem characteristics and the approximation order. Thus, refined models can be developed in an automatic manner. In the present work, a particular class of 1D CUF models that was initially devised for the analysis of aircraft structures has been employed for the analysis of marine structures. This class, which was called Component-Wise (CW), allows one to model complex 3D features, such as inclined hull walls, floors and girders in the form of components. Realistic ship geometries were used to demonstrate the efficacy of the CUF approach. With the same level of accuracy achieved, 1D CUF beam elements require far less number of Degrees of Freedom (DoFs) compared to a 3D solid FE solution.

Investigation on Damage Tolerance of Thick Laminate for Aircraft Composite Structure (항공기 복합재 구조에 적용된 두꺼운 적층판의 손상 허용 기준 평가)

  • Park, Hyun-Bum;Kong, Chang-Duk;Shin, Chul-Jin
    • Composites Research
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.105-109
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    • 2012
  • Recently, development of a small aircraft has been carried out for the BASA(Bilateral Aviation Safety Agreement) program in Korea. This aircraft adopted all composite structures for environmental friendly by low fuel consumption due to its lightness behavior. However the composite structure has disadvantage which is very weak against impact damages. Therefore, damage allowable design of aircraft structure must be performed considering compressive fracture strength. This point is very important for certification of composite structure aircraft. In this paper, it is performed the research on damage tolerance of thick laminate adopting aircraft structure. The damage tolerance of three different types of thick laminates such as no damage, open hole and impact damage is evaluated under compression loading.

Damage and vibrations of nuclear power plant buildings subjected to aircraft crash part II: Numerical simulations

  • Li, Z.R.;Li, Z.C.;Dong, Z.F.;Huang, T.;Lu, Y.G.;Rong, J.L.;Wu, H.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.53 no.9
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    • pp.3085-3099
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    • 2021
  • Investigations of large commercial aircraft impact effect on nuclear power plant (NPP) buildings have been drawing extensive attentions, particularly after the 9/11 event, and this paper aims to numerically assess the damage and vibrations of NPP buildings subjected to aircrafts crash. In Part I of present paper, two shots of reduce-scaled model test of aircraft impact on NPP were conducted based on the large rocket sled loading test platform. In the present part, the numerical simulations of both scaled and prototype aircraft impact on NPP buildings are further performed by adopting the commercial program LS-DYNA. Firstly, the refined finite element (FE) models of both scaled aircraft and NPP models in Part I are established, and the model impact test is numerically simulated. The validities of the adopted numerical algorithm, constitutive model and the corresponding parameters are verified based on the experimental NPP model damages and accelerations. Then, the refined simulations of prototype A380 aircraft impact on a hypothetical NPP building are further carried out. It indicates that the NPP building can totally withstand the impact of A380 at a velocity of 150 m/s, while the accompanied intensive vibrations may still lead to different levels of damage on the nuclear related equipment. Referring to the guideline NEI07-13, a maximum acceleration contour is plotted and the shock damage propagation distances under aircraft impact are assessed, which indicates that the nuclear equipment located within 11.5 m from the impact point may endure malfunction. Finally, by respectively considering the rigid and deformable impacts mainly induced by aircraft engine and fuselage, an improved Riera function is proposed to predict the impact force of aircraft A380.

A Study on the Local Inhomogeneous Structure of Al 7050 Forged Part (Al 7050 단조품의 국부적 불균일 조직 형성에 대한 연구)

  • 이정환;김대용;김재곤;이상용;이영선;전승문;이명건
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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    • 1995.06a
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    • pp.81-90
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    • 1995
  • Age hardenable aluminum alloys show high specific strength, good thermal and electrical conductivity as well as lightness, and are typical aircraft materials. High fatigue strength and good resistancy against stress corrosion cracking are also important for aircraft aluminum alloys. Al alloy 7050 has been developed to meet the above mentioned requirements and the use of this alloy as forged aircraft part becomes more important. However, forged 7050 parts showed undersirable structures such as severe local grain coarsening in surface area and unproper metal flow that is degrading mechanical properties. In this paper, microstructural aspects of die forging in the Al alloy 7050 are investigated. Also suggested are the optimal forging conditions for microstructural control of Al alloy 7050.

A Study on the Local Grain Coarsening in Surface of Al 7050 Forged Part (Al 7050 단조품 표면의 입도성장층 방지에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jeong-Hwan;Lee, Sang-Yong;Lee, Yeong-Seon
    • 연구논문집
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    • s.26
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    • pp.113-120
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    • 1996
  • Age hardenable aluminium alloys show high specific strength, good thermal and electrical conductivity as well as lightness, and are typical aircraft materials. High fatigue strength and good resistancy against stress corrosion cracking are also important for aircraft aluminium alloys. Al alloy 7050 has been developed to meet the above mentioned requirements and the use of this alloy as forged aircraft part becomes more important. However, forged 7050 parts showed undersiable structures such as severe local grain coarsening in surface area and unproper metal flow that is degrading mechanical properties. In this paper, microstructural aspects of die forging in the Al alloy 7050 are investigated. Also suggested are the optimal forging conditions for microstructural control of Al alloy 7050.

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Spatial database architecture for organizing a unified information space for manned and unmanned aviation

  • Maksim Kalyagin;Yuri Bukharev
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.545-554
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    • 2023
  • The widespread introduction of unmanned aircrafts has led to the understanding of the need to organize a common information space for manned and unmanned aircrafts, which is reflected in the Russian Unmanned aircraft system Traffic Management (RUTM) project. The present article deals with the issues of spatial information database (DB) organization, which is the core of RUTM and provides storage of various data types (spatial, aeronautical, topographical, meteorological, vector, etc.) required for flight safety management. Based on the analysis of functional capabilities and types of work which it needs to ensure, the architecture of spatial information DB, including the base of source information, base of display settings, base of vector objects, base of tile packages and also a number of special software packages was proposed. The issues of organization of these DB, types and formats of data and ways of their display are considered in detail. Based on the analysis it was concluded that the optimal construction of the spatial DB for RUTM system requires a combination of different model variants and ways of organizing data structures.

Investigation of Tensile Strain Rate Effects on Composite Material for Aircraft Structural Survivability Assessment (항공기 구조생존성 평가를 위한 복합재의 변형률 속도 영향성 분석)

  • Seo, Bo-hwi
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.106-111
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    • 2018
  • Hydrodynamic ram phenomenon could be generated by external threats such as impact and blast in the aircraft. High strain rate deformation caused by the hydrodynamic ram phenomenon is one of the main factors to influence structural survivability. Mechanical properties of composite structure change rapidly under conditions of high strain rate. Therefore, it is necessary to experimentally investigate the influence of strain rates for aircraft structural survivability. In this paper, tensile tests of composite material were conducted for low and high strain rates to investigate the influence of the various strain rates. Tensile modulus increases more compared to tensile strength at high strain rate under hydrodynamic ram condition. Regression analysis was conducted to predict tensile modulus at various strain rates because it is one of the main damaging factors for composite structures under high strain rate conditions. Also, the mechanical properties of composite materials were acquired and analyzed under high strain rate conditions. It is hypothesized that the results from this study would be used for designing aircraft composite structures and evaluation considering structural survivability.

Improving Machining Quality of L-Shaped Thin-Walled Structure in Milling Process of Ti-Alloy (Ti-6Al-4V) (티타늄 합금(Ti-6A1-4V)의 밀링가공에서 L자형 얇은 벽 구조의 가공품질 향상)

  • Kim, Jong-Min;Koo, Joon-Young;Jun, Cha-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.20 no.11
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    • pp.52-59
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    • 2021
  • Titanium alloy (Ti-alloy) is widely used as a material for core parts of aircraft structures and engines that require both lightweight and heat-resistant properties owing to their high specific stiffness. Most parts used in aircraft have I-, L-, and H-shaped thin-walled structures for weight reduction. It is difficult to machine thin-walled structures owing to vibrations and deformations during machining. In particular, cutting tool damage occurs in the corners of thin-walled structures owing to the rapid increase in cutting force and vibration, and machining quality deteriorates because of deep tool marks on machined surfaces. In this study, milling experiments were performed to derive an effective method for machining a L-shaped thin-walled structure with Ti-alloy (Ti-6Al-4V). Three types of machining experiment were performed. The surface quality, tool wear, cutting force, and vibration were analyzed comprehensively, and an effective machining method in terms of tool life and machining quality was derived.