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Safety Assessment Analysis of the Rotorcraft Fuel Pumps (회전익기 연료펌프 안전성 평가 분석)

  • Lee, Junghoon;Park, Jang-Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.21-25
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    • 2013
  • The system and components for aircraft are required the design data on which the safety requirements are properly reflected for their certification. This paper presents the procedure and results of a safety assessments analysis for the rotorcraft fuel pumps in oder to confirm and verify them. The fuel pumps design assessment must be performed, including a detailed failure analysis to identify all failures that will prevent continued safe flight or safe landing. In order to assess the fuel pumps design safety, not only system safety hazard analysis and but FTA(Fault Tree Analysis) for proofing the safety objective of the fuel pumps are performed. The results of the safety assessment for fuel pumps validate that no single failure or malfunction could result in catastrophic failure or critical accidents of the rotorcraft.

Performance and Airloads Analyses for a Rigid Coaxial Rotor of High-Speed Compound Unmanned Rotorcrafts (고속 비행 복합형 무인 회전익기의 강체 동축반전 로터의 성능 및 공력 하중 해석)

  • Kwon, Young-Min;Park, Jae-Sang
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.311-318
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    • 2020
  • This study investigates the performance and blade airloads for a rigid coaxial rotor of high-speed compound unmanned rotorcrafts. The present compound unmanned rotorcraft uses not only a rigid coaxial rotor, but also wings and propellers for high-speed flights. For the rigid coaxial rotor in this work, CAMRAD II, a rotorcraft comprehensive analysis code, is used to study the performance at a flight speed of up to 250 knots and blade section lift forces at 230 knots. As the flight speed increases, the rotor power decreases; however, the power of propellers increases to overcome the drag force of a rotorcraft in high-speed flight. The effective lift-to-drag ratio of a rotor has the maximum value of about 11.6 which is much higher than the value of the conventional helicopter. The blade section lift forces of the upper and lower rotors at 230 knots show the similar variation trends for one rotor revolution, and the impulses because of the aerodynamic interaction between both rotors are observed.

The Effect of the Non-Technical Skills on the Rotorcraft Flight Safety (NOTECHS이 안전운항(安全運航)에 미치는 영향(影響))

  • Lee, Sangmin;Kim, Chilyoung;Hwang, Sasik
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.27-40
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    • 2013
  • Rotorcraft operating in the domestic aviation safety techniques are applied CRM training is conducted but, aircraft accidents caused by human factors has not shown a declining trend. Thus, knowledge of aviation safety and human factors for the spread of awareness of improved rotorcraft flight operations department managers to understand the complexity of nature and culture, and to perform high-risk mission helicopter pilot study of local activation and enhance safety awareness research was conducted in order to. In this study, the development direction of CRM training studies in order to identify the leading NOTECHS (Non-Technical Skills; non-technical pilot skills) of the four categories as the independent variable and the dependent variable corresponding to the resulting effect on the key variables awareness of the differences were studied. In addition, the direction and strength of the relationship were analyzed to determine the relationship of each independent variable to assess the impact on the dependent variable regression analysis was performed. Pilot training and evaluation of non-technical skills related to the teaching reflected in the CRM training and assessment must be carried out with 5 star rating scale was preferred. Therefore, to meet our country rotorcraft operating environment 'NOTECHS' aviation safety by developing training programs reflected in the educational process, implementation, and periodic training and assessment is done in future research on this analysis and feedback is done to reflect the specific performance expect.

Analysis and Trend Curve Derivation of Major Design Parameters of Unmanned and Manned Rotorcrafts (유.무인 회전익기 주요 설계변수의 추세선 식 유도 및 비교 분석 연구)

  • Hwang, Chang-Jeon;Kim, Seung-Beom
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.26-35
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    • 2006
  • Design parameters of manned and unmanned rotorcrafts have been investigated to construct a design database and to derive trend curves. Design parameters of 78 manned rotorcrafts and 33 unmanned rotorcrafts have been collected and analyzed using linear regression method. Six kinds of trend curves equations are derived. Most of trend curves derived are relatively meaningful according to the calculated correlation and determination coefficients. The comparisons between manned and unmanned rotorcraft characteristics are performed. It has been drawn according to the comparisons that unmanned rotorcraft has smaller main rotor diameter and maximum take-off weight, bigger tail rotor size and similar level of empty weight fraction than manned rotorcraft.

Design and Fabrication of a small Coaxial Rotorcraft UAV (동축반전 헬리콥터형 소형 무인항공기 설계 및 제작)

  • Kim, Sang-Deok;Byun, Young-Seop;Song, Jun-Beom;Lee, Byoung-Eon;Song, Woo-Jin;Kim, Jeong;Kang, Beom-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.37 no.3
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    • pp.293-300
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    • 2009
  • The rotorcraft-based unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV) capable of performing close-range surveillance and reconnaissance has been developed. Trade studies on mission feasibility led to the adoption of a coaxial rotorcraft with twin rotors counter-rotating in one axis and driven by electric motors. A commercial off-the-shelf flight control computer(FCC) and a radio frequency modem were adopted for autonomous navigation. In order to achieve an aerial view, commercial charge-coupled device camera was also integrated into the vehicle. The performance of the completed vehicle was proved with manual flight test, and mission capability was verified through waypoint navigation flight after being equipped with FCC. This paper treats the whole process of design and system integration for development of the coaxial rotorcraft UAV.

Patents Survey and Analysis on a Conceptual Study of Rotor Drive Systems of Combined Unmanned Rotorcraft (복합형 무인 회전익기 로터드라이브시스템 개념 연구를 위한 특허 조사 및 분석)

  • Kim, Keun-Taek
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.75-83
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    • 2016
  • This paper presents a survey of patents and an analysis of a conceptual study for the development of rotor drive systems in combined unmanned rotorcraft in. The patents were classified into 10 cases with respect to the rotor drive system development, and these are reviewed and analyzed in detail. The results describe development concepts for rotor drive systems for vehicles obtained through the patent analysis.

Design and Development of Multi-rotorcraft-based Unmanned Prototypes of Personal Aerial Vehicle

  • Muljowidodo, Muljowidodo;Budiyono, Agus
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.140-147
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    • 2009
  • The paper presents the design, development and testing activities of the multi-rotorcraft-based unmanned aerial vehicle at the Center for Unmanned System Studies, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia. The multi-rotor system was selected as the design stepping stone for future development of personal aerial vehicle prototypes. A step-by-step design program is conducted to study the technology building blocks and critical issues associated with the design, development and operation of personal aerial vehicles. A number of multi-rotor configurations have been investigated providing basic guidelines for developing a stable unmanned aerial platform. The benefit of the presently selected configuration is highlighted and some preliminary testing results are presented.

Adaptive Parallel Decomposition for Multidisciplinary Design

  • Park, Hyung-Wook;Lee, Se J.;Lee, Hyun-Seop;Park, Dong-Hoon
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.814-819
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    • 2004
  • The conceptual design of a rotorcraft system involves many different analysis disciplines. The decomposition of such a system into several subsystems can make analysis and design more efficient in terms of the total computation time. Adaptive parallel decomposition makes the structure of the overall design problem suitable to apply the multidisciplinary design optimization methodologies and it can exploit parallel computing. This study proposes a decomposition method which adaptively determines the number and sequence of analyses in each sub-problem corresponding to the available number of processors in parallel. A rotorcraft design problem is solved and as a result, the adaptive parallel decomposition method shows better performance than other previous methods for the selected design problem.

Configuration Management System for Rotorcraft Multi-Component Developement (회전익기 다품종부품 개발을 위한 형상관리 체계)

  • Kim, Hyun-Gi;Kim, Hwakbum;Kim, Sungchan
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.35-43
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    • 2012
  • Medium size rotorcraft consist of approximately 5,000 key components. The components must satisfy the target weight and performance requirement through optimization. Therefore a rotorcraft component has approximately 100 times higher unit cost for mass production than the equivalent of an automobile's, along with huge development cost. Configuration management consists of four main parts : configuration identification, configuration control, configuration audit, and data management. In development programme, configuration management is one of the methods to save development cost, and setting a well-structured configuration management system according to the Military Standard is an important factor in success of the programme. The paper proposes a configuration management system suitable for development of various multi-use components development and presents that the configuration management was performed successfully during dual-use component development programme using the established system.