Most helicopters now in service have a transmission with a planetary design. Studies have shown that some helicopters would be lighter and more reliable if they had a transmission with a split-torque design instead. However, a split-torque design has never been used by a U.S. helicopter manufacturer because there has been no proven method to ensure equal sharing of the load among the multiple load paths. The Sikorsky/Boeing team has chosen to use a split-torque transmission for the U.S. Army's Comanche helicopter, and Sikorsky Aircraft is designing and manufacturing the transmission. To help reduce the technical risk of fielding this helicopter, NASA and the Army have done the research jointly in cooperation with Sikorsky Aircraft. A theory was developed that equal load sharing could be achieved by proper configuration of the geartrain, and a computer code was completed in-house at the NASA Lewis Research Center to calculate this optimal configuration.


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    Title :

    Code to Optimize Load Sharing of Split-Torque Transmissions Applied to the Comanche Helicopter


    Publication date :

    1995


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English







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