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Book Structural Dynamic Model Obtained from Flight Use with Piloted Simulation and Handling Qualities Analysis

Download or read book Structural Dynamic Model Obtained from Flight Use with Piloted Simulation and Handling Qualities Analysis written by National Aeronautics and Space Adm Nasa and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability to use flight data to determine an aircraft model with structural dynamic effects suitable for piloted simulation. and handling qualities analysis has been developed. This technique was demonstrated using SR-71 flight test data. For the SR-71 aircraft, the most significant structural response is the longitudinal first-bending mode. This mode was modeled as a second-order system, and the other higher order modes were modeled as a time delay. The distribution of the modal response at various fuselage locations was developed using a uniform beam solution, which can be calibrated using flight data. This approach was compared to the mode shape obtained from the ground vibration test, and the general form of the uniform beam solution was found to be a good representation of the mode shape in the areas of interest. To calibrate the solution, pitch-rate and normal-acceleration instrumentation is required for at least two locations. With the resulting structural model incorporated into the simulation, a good representation of the flight characteristics was provided for handling qualities analysis and piloted simulation. Powers, Bruce G. Armstrong Flight Research Center RTOP 537-09-22...

Book Aviation Safety and Pilot Control

Download or read book Aviation Safety and Pilot Control written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-03-28 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adverse aircraft-pilot coupling (APC) events include a broad set of undesirable and sometimes hazardous phenomena that originate in anomalous interactions between pilots and aircraft. As civil and military aircraft technologies advance, interactions between pilots and aircraft are becoming more complex. Recent accidents and other incidents have been attributed to adverse APC in military aircraft. In addition, APC has been implicated in some civilian incidents. This book evaluates the current state of knowledge about adverse APC and processes that may be used to eliminate it from military and commercial aircraft. It was written for technical, government, and administrative decisionmakers and their technical and administrative support staffs; key technical managers in the aircraft manufacturing and operational industries; stability and control engineers; aircraft flight control system designers; research specialists in flight control, flying qualities, human factors; and technically knowledgeable lay readers.

Book Modelling and Simulation of Flexible Aircraft

Download or read book Modelling and Simulation of Flexible Aircraft written by Stuart P. Andrews and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of the motion of manoeuvring aircraft has traditionally considered the aircraft to be rigid. This simplifying assumption has been shown to give quite accurate results for the flight dynamics of many aircraft types. As modern transport aircraft have developed however, there has been a marked increase in the size and weight of these aircraft. This trend is likely to continue with the development of future blended-wing-body and supersonic transport aircraft. This increase in size and weight has brought about a unique set of aeroelastic and handling quality issues. The aerodynamic forces and moments acting on an aeroplane have traditionally been represented using the aerodynamic derivative approach. It has been shown that this quasisteady aerodynamic model inadequately predicts the aircraft's stability characteristics, and that the inclusion of unsteady aerodynamics "greatly improves the fidelity" of aircraft models. This thesis thus presents a novel numerical simulation of an aeroelastic aeroplane for real-time analysis. The model is built around the standard six degree-of-freedom equations of motion for a rigid aeroplane using the mean-axes system, and includes unsteady aerodynamics and structural dynamics. This is suitable for pilot-in-the-loop simulation, handling qualities and flight loads analysis, and control law development. The dynamics of the structure are modelled as a set of normal modes, and the equations of motion are realised in state-space form. The unsteady aerodynamic forces acting on the aeroplane are described by an indicial state-space model, including unsteady tailplane downwash and compressibility effects. An implementation of the model is presented in the MATLAB/ Simulink environment. The interaction between the flight control system, the aeroelastic system and the rigidbody motion of the aeroplane can result in degraded handling qualities, excessive actuator control, and fatigue problems. The introduction of load alleviation systems for the management of loads due to manoeuvres and gusts is also likely to result in the handling qualities of the aeroplane being degraded. This thesis presents a number of studies into the impact of structural dynamics, unsteady aerodynamics, and load alleviation on the handling qualities of a flexible civil transport aeroplane. The handling qualities of the aeroplane are assessed against a number of different handling qualities criteria and flying specifications, including the Neal-Smith, Bandwidth, and CAP criterion. It is shown that aeroelastic effects alter the longitudinal and lateral-directional characteristics of the aeroplane, resulting in degraded handling qualities. Manoeuvre and gust load alleviation are similarly found to degrade handling qualities, while active mode control is shown to offer the possibility of improved handling qualities.

Book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports

Download or read book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Technology and Management Assistance Programs of the Small Business Administration

Download or read book Technology and Management Assistance Programs of the Small Business Administration written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hearings  Reports and Prints of the Senate Select Committee on Small Business

Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Select Committee on Small Business written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book NASA Scientific and Technical Publications

Download or read book NASA Scientific and Technical Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book NASA Technical Memorandum

Download or read book NASA Technical Memorandum written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book NASA Tech Briefs

Download or read book NASA Tech Briefs written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Technical Information Indexes

Download or read book Technical Information Indexes written by United States. Naval Air Systems Command and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book International Aerospace Abstracts

Download or read book International Aerospace Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Simulation Study of Impact of Aeroelastic Characteristics on Flying Qualities of a High Speed Civil Transport

Download or read book Simulation Study of Impact of Aeroelastic Characteristics on Flying Qualities of a High Speed Civil Transport written by National Aeronautics and Space Adm Nasa and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A piloted simulation study conducted in NASA Langley Visual Motion Simulator addressed the impact of dynamic aero- servoelastic effects on flying qualities of a High Speed Civil Transport. The intent was to determine effectiveness of measures to reduce the impact of aircraft flexibility on piloting tasks. Potential solutions examined were increasing frequency of elastic modes through structural stiffening, increasing damping of elastic modes through active control, elimination of control effector excitation of the lowest frequency elastic modes, and elimination of visual cues associated with elastic modes. Six test pilots evaluated and performed simulated maneuver tasks, encountering incidents wherein cockpit vibrations due to elastic modes fed back into the control stick through involuntary vibrations of the pilots upper body and arm. Structural stiffening and compensation of the visual display were of little benefit in alleviating this impact, while increased damping and elimination of control effector excitation of the elastic modes both offered great improvements when applied in sufficient degree.Raney, David L. and Jackson, E. Bruce and Buttrill, Carey S.Langley Research CenterSUPERSONIC TRANSPORTS; FLIGHT CHARACTERISTICS; COCKPITS; STRUCTURAL VIBRATION; ACTIVE CONTROL; DYNAMIC STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL STIMULI; VIBRATION DAMPING; STIFFENING; PILOT PERFORMANCE; DISPLAY DEVICES; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; MOTION SIMULATORS

Book Piloting Vertical Flight Aircraft  A Conference on Flying Qualities and Human Factors

Download or read book Piloting Vertical Flight Aircraft A Conference on Flying Qualities and Human Factors written by Christopher L. Blanken and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Simulation of Structural Bending of Large Aircraft

Download or read book Simulation of Structural Bending of Large Aircraft written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large aircraft may possess slow structural modes that can affect handling qualities if excited. Little has been done to simulate these structural modes during pilot-in-the-loop analyses. A fast and simple method to simulate the longitudinal structural modes of large aircraft has been developed. A shape function for fuselage was obtained from a finite element model. This deflection function was used to develop transfer functions for flight simulation. The transfer functions were developed in a method similar to that used at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. Flight simulations were developed to explore the effects of the structural modes on handling qualities of the aircraft in question These calculations were validated by correlating wind tunnel data with simulation predicted data.

Book Masters Theses in the Pure and Applied Sciences

Download or read book Masters Theses in the Pure and Applied Sciences written by Wade H. Shafer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masters Theses in the Pure and Applied Sciences was first conceived, published, and disseminated by the Center for Information and Numerical Data Analysis and Synthesis (CINDAS) * at Purdue University in 1 957, starting its coverage of theses with the academic year 1955. Beginning with Volume 13, the printing and dissemination phases of the activity were transferred to University Microfilms/Xerox of Ann Arbor, Michigan, with the thought that such an arrangement would be more beneficial to the academic and general scientific and technical community. After five years of this joint undertaking we had concluded that it was in the interest of all con cerned if the printing and distribution of the volumes were handled by an interna tional publishing house to assure improved service and broader dissemination. Hence, starting with Volume 18, Masters Theses in the Pure and Applied Sciences has been disseminated on a worldwide basis by Plenum Publishing Cor poration of New York, and in the same year the coverage was broadened to include Canadian universities. All back issues can also be ordered from Plenum. We have reported in Volume 32 (thesis year 1987) a total of 12,483 theses titles from 22 Canadian and 176 United States universities. We are sure that this broader base for these titles reported will greatly enhance the value of this important annual reference work. While Volume 32 reports theses submitted in 1987, on occasion, certain univer sities do report theses submitted in previous years but not reported at the time.