| Issue |
Mechanics & Industry
Volume 23, 2022
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 2 | |
| Number of page(s) | 12 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/meca/2021051 | |
| Published online | 21 January 2022 | |
Regular Article
Aeroelastic scaling of flying demonstrators: mode tracking technique
1
Institut Clément Ader, Université de Toulouse, ISAE-SUPAERO-CNRS-INSA-Mines Albi-UPS,
Toulouse, France
2
ONERA/DTIS, Université de Toulouse,
Toulouse, France
* e-mail: joan.mas.colomer.academic@gmail.com
Received:
15
March
2021
Accepted:
11
December
2021
Aeroelastic scaling theory shows that the design problem of aeroelastically equivalent scaled aircraft can be treated as a structural-only design problem if the aerodynamic shape and airflow properties of the full scale aircraft are preserved. In that case, the theory shows that it is sufficient to match the scaled natural mode shapes, frequencies and mass of the reference aircraft. In this paper, we present a new method for the dynamic scaling of flexible structures where the objective function is based on the modal assurance criterion (MAC). This criterion is used for a mode tracking strategy during the optimization process. Finally, we apply this method to a scaled version (1:5) of the uCRM wing, achieving an agreement greater than 99% on the average MAC value of the first 5 modes.
Key words: Aeroelastic scaling / modal matching / modal assurance criterion / optimization
© J. Mas Colomer et al., Published by EDP Sciences 2022
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