Title of Paper:Geometrically exact beam-based aeroelastic modeling and solution of composite rotor blades in forward flight

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Affiliation of Author(s):航空学院

Journal:J Am Helicopter Soc

Abstract:In this paper, the geometrically exact beam model and aeroelastic solution methods for composite rotor blades in forward
flight by the latest variational asymptotic beam sectional analysis (VABS) have been employed. The geometrically exact
beam equations of motion in the mixed variational form and the latest VABS are used to deal with one-dimensional blade
analysis and the structural property of blade cross section, respectively. The methods can be used for the aeroelastic
solution of composite rotor blades with arbitrary cross-sectional shape and material distribution, large deflections and
significant nonclassical effects such as cross-sectional warping, transverse shear deformation, and elastic couplings caused
by anisotropic material properties. The Peters–He finite state dynamic inflow model and the Peters finite state airloads
theory are used to calculate the induced velocity and blade airloads, respectively. An auto-pilot trim scheme is used for
calculating the blade pitch controls to meet the trim requirements. The convergence issue encountered when solving the
geometrically exact, mixed variational aeroelastic equations in time domain has been successfully addressed. The values of
the empirical parameters in the auto-pilot trim scheme for the presented aeroelastic model have been properly selected. The
accuracy of the presented aeroelastic modeling and solution methods has been verified against the SA349/2 flight-test data.
The influence of transverse shear deformation on the aeroelastic response of composite rotor blades was also investigated,
indicating that this effect has a nonnegligible influence on the aeroelastic response of the five different kinds of elastically
coupled hingeless composite rotors investigated in this paper.

Volume:68

Translation or Not:no

Date of Publication:2023-04-01

Included Journals:SCI

Co-author:Dewey H. Hodges,Lin Changliang

Correspondence Author:Xia Pinqi