NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : An pdf

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : An

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In pursuit of higher performance, the XV-15 Tiltrotor Research Aircraft was modified by the installation of new composite rotor blades. Initial flights with the Advanced Technology Blades (ATB’s) revealed excessive rotor control loads that were traced to a dynamic mismatch between the blades and the aircraft control system. The analytical models of both the blades and the mechanical controls were extensively revised for use by the CAMRAD computer program to better predict aeroelastic stability and loads. This report documents the most important revisions and discusses their effects on aeroelastic stability predictions for airplane-mode flight. The ATB’s may be flown in several different configurations for research, including changes in blade sweep and tip twist. The effects on stability of 1 deg and 0 deg sweep are illustrated, as are those of twisted and zero-twist tips. This report also discusses the effects of stiffening the rotor control system, which was done by locking out lateral cyclic swashplate motion with shims

• Creator/s: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS
• Date: 3/1/1993
• Year: 1993
• Book Topics/Themes: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), AEROELASTICITY, AIRCRAFT CONTROL, BLADE TIPS, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, CONTROL STABILITY, STABILITY TESTS, XV-15 AIRCRAFT, AERODYNAMIC LOADS, FLIGHT TESTS, MATHEMATICAL MODELS, RESEARCH AIRCRAFT, STIFFENING, Acree, C. W., Jr

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