Flutter analysis and simulated flutter test of wings

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Balevi, Taner Birtan

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Flutter is a dynamic instability which can result in catastrophic failures of an air vehicle. Preventing flutter can be an important factor in the aircraft design, affecting the structural design. Thus, the weight and performance of the aircraft is also being affected. Understanding the role of each design factor of a wing on the onset of flutter can help designers on the flutter clearance of the aircraft. Analysis to predict flutter, ground vibration tests and flight flutter tests, which are performed to verify that the dedicated flight envelope is clear from flutter, are the most important certification processes in modern aviation. Flight flutter testing is a very expensive process. In flight flutter tests the air vehicle is instrumentated with exciters, accelerometers and transmitters to send the test data simultaneously to the ground station to be analyzed. Since flutter is a very severe instability, which develops suddenly, the data should be followed carefully by the engineers at the ground station and feedback should be provided to the pilot urgently when needed. Low test step numbers per flight, increases the cost of flutter testing. Increasing efforts in pre-flight test processes in flutter prediction may narrow the flight flutter test steps and decrease the costs. In this study, flutter prediction methods are investigated to aid the flutter test process. For incompressible flight conditions, some sample problems are solved using typical section model. Flutter solutions of a simple 3D wing are also performed via a coupled finite element linear aerodynamics approach using the commercial tool Nastran. 3D flutter solutions of the wing are compared with the typical section solutions to see how close can the typical section method predict flutter compared to the flutter analyis using the three dimensional wing model. A simulated flutter test method is introduced utilizing the two dimensional typical section method. It is shown that with a simple two dimensional typical section method, flutter test simulation can be performed successfully as long as the typical section model approximates the dynamic properties of the wing closely.

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Flutter (Aerodynamics)., Aeroelasticity., Airplanes

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615016/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/21956

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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T. B. Balevi, “Flutter analysis and simulated flutter test of wings,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2012.