Recent wind tunnel tests and analytical studies show that a store mounted on a pylon with soft pitch stiffness provides substantial increase in flutter speed of fighter aircraft and reduces dependency of flutter on mass and inertia of the store. This concept, termed the decoupler pylon, utilizes a low frequency control system to maintain pitch alignment of the store during maneuvers and changing flight conditions. Under rapidly changing transient loads, however, the alignment control system may allow the store to momentarily bottom against a relatively stiff backup structure in which case the pylon stiffness acts as a hardening nonlinear spring. Such structural nonlinearities are known to affect not only the flutter speed but also the basic behavior of the instability. The influence of pylon stiffness nonlinearities or the flutter characteristics of wing mounted external stores is examined.


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    Title :

    Wing/store flutter with nonlinear pylon stiffness


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS 21st Structures, Struct. Dyn. and Mater. Conf. ; 1980 ; Seattle


    Publication date :

    1980-04-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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