Natural vibration characteristics of rotating blades are of fundamental importance from the viewpoint of maneuvering, blade life, vibration levels, aeroelastic, and stability. Helicopters may have serious resonant vibration problems when the excitation frequencies are equal to some multiple of the rotational speed. To ensure that conditions susceptible to resonance do not exist within the range of operating speeds, it is necessary that the natural frequencies and mode shapes be determined accurately. On one hand, as the complexity of multibody systems and the methods used for their design and control increases, the need for more elegant formulations of the equations of motion becomes an issue of paramount importance. On the other hand, although processor speed has increased dramatically over the last decade, development of computationally efficient algorithms is still a major issue in multibody dynamics. The transfer matrix method for multibody systems (MSTMM) accounts for both aspects. Based on many advantages of MSTMM in studying multibody system dynamics, a scenario of dynamics coupling between the flexible twin blade rotor and flexible fuselage of a typical helicopter model is proposed. The dynamical model of the coupled system, its topological figure, the overall transfer equation, and the characteristics equation are developed. The flapwise vibrations characteristics are carried out to obtain uncoupled/coupled twin blade/fuselage system natural modes and frequencies as a function of rotor speed. Examples are performed to validate with those published in the literature and produced by Workbench ANSYS.


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    Title :

    Flapwise Vibration Computations of Coupled Helicopter Rotor/Fuselage: Application of Multibody System Dynamics


    Contributors:
    Rui, Xiaoting (author) / Abbas, Laith K. (author) / Yang, Fufeng (author) / Wang, Guoping (author) / Yu, Hailong (author) / Wang, Yan (author)

    Published in:

    AIAA Journal ; 56 , 2 ; 818-835


    Publication date :

    2018-02-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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