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An Application of the Improved Models for Risk Assessment of Runway Safety Areas (활주로안전구역 위험평가 개선모델 적용 연구)

  • Kim, Do-Hyun;Hong, Seung-Beom
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2015
  • The RSA is intended to prevent the following five types of events from becoming an accident: landing overruns, landing undershoots, landing veer-offs, takeoff overruns and takeoff veer-offs. The improved models are based on evidence from worldwide accidents and incidents that occurred during the past 27 years. The analysis utilizes historical data from the specific airport and allows the user to take into consideration specific operational conditions to which movements are subject, as well as the actual or planned RSA conditions in terms of dimensions, configuration, type of terrain, and boundaries defined by existing obstacles. This paper shows how to apply the improved models for Risk Assessment of Runway Safety Areas (Airport cooperative research program(ACRP) Report 50) into an airport and the outcome differences between the old models based on ACRP report 3-Analysis of aircraft overrun and undershoots for runway safety areas and the new models from ACRP report 50 in the specific airport.

A Study on 2D Modelling of Gas Turbine Engine Intake for Installed Performance Analysis (가스터빈 엔진의 장착성능 해석을 위한 흡입구 2D 모델링에 관한 연구)

  • Kong, Chang-Duk;Kho, Seong-Hee;Ki, Ja-Young;Jun, Yong-Min
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.335-338
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    • 2007
  • This study carried out the 2D modeling for estimating the intake loss that is a important installed loss for the precise installed performance analysis of a gas turbine engine, and the 0D performance map that represents intake pressure loss change depending on flight Mach number and air mass flow rate was generated using the 2D modeling results. In order to evaluate the generation procedure of the intake performance map, the intake map generation was applied to a commercial aircraft intake configuration.

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Study on Impact Damage Behavior of Sandwich Composite Structure for aircraft (항공기 적용 샌드위치 복합재 구조의 충격 손상 거동 연구)

  • Park, Hyunbum;Kong, Changduk
    • Composites Research
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.36-41
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    • 2013
  • In this study, low velocity impact analysis on composite sandwich structure was performed. Sandwich structure configuration is made of Carbon-Epoxy face sheets and foam cores. For validating study, the results of an experimental and a finite element method analysis were compared previously. From the finite element method analysis results of sandwich panel, it was confirmed that the results of analysis was reasonable. Impactor velocity to initiate damage was estimated, and in order to investigate the damage at the predicted velocity, impact analysis using finite element method was performed. According to the impact analysis results of sandwich panel, it was confirmed that the damage was generated at the estimated impact velocity. Finally, The comparison of the numerical results with those measured by the experiment showed good agreement.

Toward the computational rheometry of filled polymeric fluids

  • Hwang, Wook-Ryol;Hulsen Martien A.
    • Korea-Australia Rheology Journal
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.171-181
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    • 2006
  • We present a short review for authors' previous work on direct numerical simulations for inertialess hard particle suspensions formulated either with a Newtonian fluid or with viscoelastic polymeric fluids to understand the microstructural evolution and the bulk material behavior. We employ two well-defined bi-periodic domain concepts such that a single cell problem with a small number of particles may represent a large number of repeated structures: one is the sliding bi-periodic frame for simple shear flow and the other is the extensional bi-periodic frame for planar elongational flow. For implicit treatment of hydrodynamic interaction between particle and fluid, we use the finite-element/fictitious-domain method similar to the distributed Lagrangian multiplier (DLM) method together with the rigid ring description. The bi-periodic boundary conditions can be effectively incorportated as constraint equations and implemented by Lagrangian multipliers. The bulk stress can be evaluated by simple boundary integrals of stresslets on the particle boundary in such formulations. Some 2-D example results are presented to show effects of the solid fraction and the particle configuration on the shear and elongational viscosity along with the micro-structural evolution for both particles and fluid. Effects of the fluid elasticity has been also presented.

Aerodynamic Design of SUAV Flaperon (스마트무인기 플래퍼론 공력설계)

  • Choi, Seong-Wook;Kim, Jai-Moo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.33 no.8
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    • pp.26-33
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    • 2005
  • Smart UAV, which adopting tiltrotor aircraft concept, requires vertical take-off and landing, long endurance and high speed capability. These contradictable flight performances are hard to meet unless the operation of flap system which should reveal optimal performance for each flight mode. In order to design SUAV flaperon satisfying the three performance requirements, various configurations are generated and their aerodynamic performances are analyzed using numerical flow computations around flap systems. Considering aerodynamic performance and structural simplicity, a final flap configuration is selected and the performance is validated through the wind tunnel testing for 40% scale model.

Virtual Flutter Plight Test of a Full Configuration Aircraft with Pylon/External Stores

  • Kim, Dong-Hyun;Kwon, Hyuk-Jun;Lee, In;Paek, Seung-Kil
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.34-44
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    • 2003
  • An advanced aeroelastic analysis using a computational structural dynamics (CSD), finite element method (FEM) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is presented in this Paper. A general aeroelastic analysis system is originally developed and applied to realistic design problems in the transonic flow region, where strong shock wave interactions exist. The present computational approach is based on the modal-based coupled nonlinear analysis with the matched-point concept and adopts the high-speed parallel processing technique on the low-cost network based PC-clustered machines. It can give very accurate and useful engineering data on the structural dynamic design of advanced flight vehicles. For the nonlinear unsteady aerodynamics in high transonic flow region, Euler equations using the unstructured grid system have been applied to easily consider complex configurations. It is typically shown that the advanced numerical approach can give very realistic and practical results for design engineers and safe flight tests. One can find that the present study conducts a virtual flutter flight test which are usually very dangerous in reality.

Influence of Impact from Anti-Aircraft Bullet on Rotorcraft Fuel Tank Assembly

  • Kim, Sung Chan;Kim, Hyun Gi
    • International Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2018
  • Military rotorcrafts are constantly exposed to risk from bullet impacts because they operate in a battle environment. Because bullet impact damage can be deadly to crews, the fuel tanks of military rotorcraft must be designed taking extreme situations into account. Fuel tank design factors to be considered include the internal fluid pressure, the structural stress on the part impacted, and the kinetic energy of bullet strikes. Verification testing using real objects is the best way to obtain these design data effectively, but this imposes substantial burdens due to the huge cost and necessity for long-term preparation. The use of various numerical simulation tests at an early design stage can reduce the risk of trial-and-error and improve the prediction of performance. The present study was an investigation of the effects of bullet impacts on a fuel tank assembly using numerical simulation based on SPH (smoothed particle hydrodynamics), and conducted using the commercial package, LS-DYNA. The resulting equivalent stress, internal pressure, and kinetic energy of the bullet were examined in detail to evaluate the possible use of this numerical method to obtain configuration design data for the fuel tank assembly.

Design of Control Mixer for 40% Scaled Smart UAV (스마트무인기 축소모형의 조종면 혼합기 설계)

  • Gang, Yeong-Sin;Park, Beom-Jin;Yu, Chang-Seon
    • Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.240-247
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    • 2006
  • Tilt rotor aircraft is a multi-configuration airplane which has three independent flight modes; helicopter, conversion, and aiplane. The control surface mixer resign is reqctired to generate and distribute efficient control forces and moments in each flight mode. In the conversion mode, the thrust vector is changed from helicopter mode to airplane, therefore the thrust vector makes undesired forces and moments which affect on pitch, roll and yaw dynamics. This paper describes the design results of control surface mixer design which minimize the undesired forces and moments due to nacelles tilting angle change for 4O% scaled model.

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Approximate evaluations and simplified analyses of shear- mode piezoelectric modal effective electromechanical coupling

  • Benjeddou, Ayech
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.275-302
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    • 2015
  • Theoretical and numerical assessments of approximate evaluations and simplified analyses of piezoelectric structures transverse shear modal effective electromechanical coupling coefficient (EMCC) are presented. Therefore, the latter is first introduced theoretically and its approximate evaluations are reviewed; then, three-dimensional (3D) and simplified two-dimensional (2D) plane-strain (PStrain) and plane-stress (PStress) piezoelectric constitutive behaviors of electroded shear piezoceramic patches are derived and corresponding expected short-circuit (SC) and open-circuit (OC) frequencies and resulting EMCC are discussed; next, using a piezoceramic shear sandwich beam cantilever typical benchmark, a 3D finite element (FE) assessment of different evaluation techniques of the shear modal effective EMCC is conducted, including the equipotential (EP) constraints effect; finally, 2D PStrain and PStress FE modal analyses under SC and OC electric conditions, are conducted and corresponding results (SC/OC frequencies and resulting effective EMCC) are compared to 3D ones. It is found that: (i) physical EP constraints reduce drastically the shear modal effective EMCC; (ii) PStress and PStrain results depend strongly on the filling foam stiffness, rendering inadequate the use of popular equivalent single layer models for the transverse shear-mode sandwich configuration; (iii) in contrary to results of piezoelectric shunted damping and energy harvesting popular single-degree-of-freedom-based models, transverse shear modal effective EMCC values are very small in particular for the first mode which is the common target of these applications.

Design, development and ground testing of hingeless elevons for MAV using piezoelectric composite actuators

  • Dwarakanathan, D.;Ramkumar, R.;Raja, S.;Rao, P. Siva Subba
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.303-328
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    • 2015
  • A design methodology is presented to develop the hingeless control surfaces for MAV using adhesively bonded Macro Fiber Composite (MFC) actuators. These actuators have got the capability to deflect the trailing edge surfaces of the wing to attain the required maneuverability, besides achieving the set aerodynamic trim condition. A scheme involving design, analysis, fabrication and testing procedure has been adopted to realize the trailing edge morphing mechanism. The stiffness distribution of the composite MAV wing is tailored such that the induced deflection by piezoelectric actuation is approximately optimized. Through ground testing, the proposed concept has been demonstrated on a typical MAV structure. Electromechanical analysis is performed to evaluate the actuator performance and subsequently aeroelastic and 2D CFD analyses are carried out to see the functional requirements of wing trailing edge surfaces to behave as elevons. Efforts have been made to obtain the performance comparison of conventional control surfaces (elevons) with morphing wing trailing edge surfaces. A significant improvement in lift to drag ratio is noticed with morphed wing configuration in comparison to conventional wing. Further, it has been shown that the morphed wing trailing edge surfaces can be deployed as elevons for aerodynamic trim applications.