The flap-lag stability of an isolated hingeless rotor is investigated, both experimentally and analytically, in hover and in forward flight. The effects of forward flight aerodynamics on regressing lead-lag mode stability are the focus of the investigation. The soft-inplane, three-bladed, isolated model rotor was operated untrimmed at advance ratios from hover to 0.55 and at shaft angles as high as 20 deg. The experimental data base includes forward flight damping data for two lead-lag natural frequencies, for three values of collective pitch, and for both zero and full-lag structural coupling. With the aid of computerized symbolic manipulation, a rigid-blade lag-flap model analysis was developed to calculate the Floquent eigenvalues and to identify the modes. Good correlation is shown for some cases, but other cases show large discrepancies between the theory and experiment.


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    Title :

    An experimental and analytical investigation of isolated rotor flap-lag stability in forward flight


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    Publication date :

    1990-04-01



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    Miscellaneous


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    Language :

    English