High performance aircraft are, by their very nature, often required to undergo maneuvers involving high angles of attack. Under these conditions unsteady vortices emanating from the wing and the fuselage will impinge on the twin fins (required for directional stability) causing excessive buffet loads, in some circumstances, to be applied to the aircraft. These loads result in oscillatory stresses, which may cause significant amounts of fatigue damage. Active control is a possible solution to this important problem. A full-scale test was carried out on an F/A-18 fuselage and fins using piezoceramic actuators to control the vibrations. Buffet loads were simulated using very powerful electromagnetic shakers. The first phase of this test was concerned with the open loop system identification whereas the second stage involved implementing linear time invariant control laws. This paper looks at some of the problems encountered as well as the corresponding solutions and some results. It is expected that flight trials of a similar control system to alleviate buffet will occur as early as 2001.


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    Title :

    Buffet Load Alleviation


    Contributors:
    Ryall, T. G. (author) / Moses, R. W. (author) / Hopkins, M. A. (author) / Henderson, D. (author) / Zimcik, D. G. (author) / Nitzsche, F. (author)

    Publication date :

    2004-01-01


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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