NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : Applications pdf

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : Applications

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The Ko displacement theory, formulated for weak nonuniform (slowly changing cross sections) cantilever beams, was applied to the deformed shape analysis of the doubly-tapered wings of the Ikhana unmanned aircraft. The two-line strain-sensing system (along the wingspan) was used for sensing the bending strains needed for the wing-deformed shapes (deflections and cross-sectional twist) analysis. The deflection equation for each strain-sensing line was expressed in terms of the bending strains evaluated at multiple numbers of strain-sensing stations equally spaced along the strain-sensing line. For the preflight shape analysis of the Ikhana wing, the strain data needed for input to the displacement equations for the shape analysis were obtained from the nodal-stress output of the finite-element analysis. The wing deflections and cross-sectional twist angles calculated from the displacement equations were then compared with those computed from the finite-element computer program. The Ko displacement theory formulated for weak nonlinear cantilever beams was found to be highly accurate in the deformed shape predictions of the doubly-tapered Ikhana wing

• Creator/s: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS
• Date: 10/1/2009
• Year: 2009
• Book Topics/Themes: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), DEFORMATION, DISPLACEMENT, SHAPES, SWEPT WINGS, MATHEMATICAL MODELS, PILOTLESS AIRCRAFT, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, DETECTION, FINITE ELEMENT METHOD, NONLINEARITY, CANTILEVER BEAMS, DISCRETIZATION (MATHEMATICS), Ko, William L., Richards, W. Lance, Fleischer, Van Tran

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