Recent aircraft designs have considered higher-aspect-ratio wings to reduce induced drag for improved fuel efficiency; however, to remain compliant with airport gate requirements, folding wingtips have been introduced as a solution to the increased wingspan. Recent numerical studies suggest that a folding wingtip solution may be incorporated with spring devices to provide an additional gust loads alleviation ability in flight as well. In this work, a series of low-speed steady and dynamic wind tunnel tests was conducted using a prototype of such a concept. It was found that a folding wingtip with a nonzero relative angle of the folding hinge axis to the streamwise direction could provide gust loads alleviation. The level of load alleviation varied with hinge spring stiffness and lifting condition, with the best performance achieving a 56% reduction in peak loading.


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    Title :

    Testing of a Hinged Wingtip Device for Gust Loads Alleviation


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Journal of Aircraft ; 55 , 5 ; 2050-2067


    Publication date :

    2018-05-31


    Size :

    18 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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