Aeroelastic response, blade and hub loads, and shaft-fixed aeroelastic stability is investigated for a helicopter with elastically tailored stiff-inplane composite rotor blades. A free wake model for nonuniform rotor inflow is integrated with a recently developed finite-element-based aeroelastic analysis for helicopters with tailored composite blades. Pitch-flap and pitch-lag elastic couplings, introduced through the anisotropy of the plies in the blade spar, have a significant effect on the dynamic elastic torsion response. Positive and negative pitch-flap couplings reduce vertical hub shear forces approximately 20 % in the high vibration transition flight regime, however, negative pitch-flap elastic coupling significantly increases inplane hub shear forces at all flight speeds. The influence of pitch-flap, pitch-lag, and extension-torsion elastic couplings on the rotating frame blade bending moments is small. Ply-induced composite couplings have a powerful effect on blade stability in both hover and forward flight. Positive pitch-flap, positive pitch-lag, and positive extension-torsion couplings each have a stabilizing effect on lag mode damping. Negative pitch-lag coupling has a strong destabilizing effect on blade lag stability, resulting in a mild instability at moderate flight speeds.


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    Title :

    Vibration and flutter of stiff-inplane elastically tailored composite rotor blades


    Additional title:

    Die Schwingungen und Flatterschwingungen von steifen, in der gleichen Ebene elastisch, zugeschnittenen Rotorblättern aus Verbundwerkstoff


    Contributors:
    Smith, E.C. (author)


    Publication date :

    1993


    Size :

    12 Seiten, 22 Bilder, 5 Tabellen, 33 Quellen


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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