Air Vehicle Structures and Dynamics Technology
Abstract
Establish improved experimentally validated modeling tools and methodologies that can be used to understand the physics of aeroelastic stability and design in next generation rotorcraft platform configurations for FVL platforms. This involves the development of an experimental capability, the Tiltrotor Aeroelastic Stability Test-bed (TRAST), which would be used to generate novel experimental data. This data will be used to increase fundamental understanding of the whirl flutter instability, which currently limits the high speed performance of tiltrotor rotorcraft. This effort mitigates risk for the Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator (JMR-TD) effort and informs FVL requirement definition and technology maturation. The experimentally validated models will also be used to investigate concepts to reduce the vibration and improve stability of future aircraft.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2020
- Source ID
- d0435a4d2ec7b48f5d823631e9dceed8