introduction to aerospace engineering...•systems: instruments and navigation - hydraulics and...
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1 Challenge the future
Introduction to Aerospace Engineering
Lecture slides
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15-12-2012
Challenge the future
Delft University of Technology
Introduction to Aerospace Engineering
9 & 10. Structural concepts
J. Sinke
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2 Structural concepts
9&10 Structural concepts
Lecture Notes: Special Handout; See Black Board
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3 Structural concepts
Do you Remember?
Weight
• Aircraft Empty Weight
• Structure: Wing - Horizontal Tail - Vertical Tail – Fuselage - Landing
Gear - Surface Controls - Propulsion System – APU
• Systems: Instruments and Navigation - Hydraulics and Pneumatics -
Electrical System – Electronics – Furnishings - Air Conditioning and
Anti-Ice
• Crew and Flight Attendants
• Operating Items
• Payload
• Fuel
One should minimize the weight of aircraft structures & systems,
and Fuel, in order to maximize Payload
W
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Contents
What is a structure?
How does it perform?
The beam as simple principle structural element (“From truss to
beam”)
Some loads on aircraft structures
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5 Structural concepts
What is a structure?
Like a skeleton – features: Many elements (bones)
Several functions
Coherence
Joints
Different materials
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What are the functions of a structure?
Carrying of the LOADS (dominant)
Protection Framework to attach other systems
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Historical development of structures
Relationship between type of structure and material
Period Type structure Materials
1903-1910 Cables, lath, fabric Steel, wood, linen
1910-1920 Truss, spars ribs, fabric Steel rods, tubes
1920-1940 Load carrying wooden wings wood: triplex
1932-today Stiffened shell structures Aluminum
1948-today Pressure cabin Improved Al-alloys
±1980-today Composite structures Carbon fibers
What were the first composite applications? When?
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Biplane vs. Monoplane
Most aircraft in early years of aviation were Biplanes
+ structural wings connected box girder by wires & struts
+ maneuverability more direct control (thin
light weight wings)
- wings affect each other
- higher drag
- limited increase in lift (20%)
w.r.t. monoplane
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Monoplane vs. Biplane In first years: limited models
Louis Bleriot (1909) – Channel
Wing structure: single spar/tube
Skin not loaded! Later cantilever beam/metal structure
Wing position: low, center, high, parasol
What loads?
Wing Spar with ribs
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1924: The Fokker F VII
F.VIIb/3m Specifations Length: 14.60 m
Wing span: 21.70 m Height: 3.90 m Empty weight: 3,050 kg Max take-off weight: 5,200 kg Cruise speed: 170 km/h
Engines: 300 hp Wright J-5 Whirlwind (3x)
Accommodation: 8 passengers.
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Fokker F VII
Period 1924 (F VII) till early 1930’s Decline started in America: - crash in TWA in 1931 (football coach) - first metal aircraft Large number In use with many airlines Features:
• monoplane • wooden wing structure • truss structure + canvas “skin”
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Wooden wing
structure
Craftsmanship (carpenters)
Loaded triplex (wood) skin
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Fuselage: Truss structure
Skin (linen) is not loaded
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Wooden structures – testing a spar
What kind of test is this? What property is determined?
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Truss structure – testing
Typical truss structure
Tubes & wires
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Testing a wing structure (Bombardier Cseries)
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Anatomy of a structure
• A structure is an Assembly of Structural Elements
• Each element participates in (some of) the functions of the
structure
• Structure has coherence
• Structural elements are joined together
• Most structural elements are derivatives of a beam
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From Truss to Beam
In the beginning of flight, aircraft structures were truss structures. For aerodynamic reasons they were closed with fabric.
The basic truss is very simple, elegant and light weight
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From Truss to Beam
The diagonal element can also be a cable. A cable can not be loaded in compression. So two cables are necessary.
One cable can be replaced by one rod. Rods can be loaded both in tension and compression.
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From Truss to Beam
What happens when two diagonal rods are used? The structure becomes: - more difficult to assemble (no hinge at crossing), - more difficult to calculate, - heavier ? (see next slide)
There is one advantage however…
The structure has some “reserve”. One rod may fail - fail safe structure
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From Truss to Beam
Safe Life
Fail Safe
Each element strong enough to stay intact for the entire life cycle
One element may fail: other elements strong enough to stay intact for limited time; inspection required!!
Which option is lighter??
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From Truss to Beam
The rod can be replaced by a thin sheet or skin.
Stress
directions
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From Truss to Beam
“Wire-braced” structure
Combination of rods and wires
Increasing thickness of the rods to the left – Why?
This is not true for the vertical rods and wires – Why not?
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From Truss to Beam
Truss made of rods only
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From Truss to Beam
External Force F
Induces Bending moment M
Truss applies force to the supports (red arrows)
Support reacts on Truss for equilibrium (blue arrows)
F
M
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From Truss to Beam
• Truss can be replaced by sheet metal
• Web plate instead of diagonal tubes
• Web plate – shear forces; girders – tension and compression
forces
• Simplified: Web plate girders
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From Truss to Beam
When applying high forces on the structure, buckling starts. Compression forces cause local buckling of sheet
Elastic buckling is no Failure! Only reduced compression load carrying capabilities. Tensile forces are fully carried.
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Skin buckling due to shear loads
From Truss to Beam
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This is an example of plastic buckling = Failure!!
Could you explain the waviness in the upper girder?
From Truss to Beam
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Historical development of airframes
Relationship between type of structure and material
Period Type structure Materials
1903-1910 Cables, lath, fabric Steel, wood, linen
1910-1920 Truss, spars ribs, fabric Steel rods, tubes
1920-1940 Load carrying wooden wings wood: triplex
1932-today Stiffened shell structures Aluminum
1948-today Pressure cabin Improved Al-alloys
1988-today Composite primary structures Carbon fibers
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DC-3
All metal aircraft
Aluminum in infancy
Riveting – non-countersunk rivets
No pressure cabin
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Junkers 52 “Tante Ju” “Auntie Ju” (1932)
Prof. Hugo Junkers
1859-1935
Professor at Aachen
- metal cantilever wings
- all metal airplane
First steel, later
Alu2024
- flying wing
- house arrest until death
by nazis
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Shell Structures
Shell structure – load bearing thin sheet material (incl. stressed skin), with stiffening elements
Monocoque – structure consisting of only a load bearing skin
(Semi-monocoque – with some supporting elements)
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Principal Structural Elements (PSE)
Principal Structural Element – primary structure – carry loads -
failure is/can be catastrophic
Non-principal structural elements – secondary structures
failure is not catastrophic (e.g. fairings, some hatches)
Most Structural Elements are “beamlike” elements
Web plate girders
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PSE – metal
What Beam elements do you
discover?
Spar
Stringers
Frame
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PSE – metal
Complex wingbox
Multiple rib designs
All elements together:
Load path
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Structures, beams, etc.
Questions?
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Loads – use of V-n diagram
Loads by Manoeuvre & Gusts Load factor n n = L / W What is the load factor at cruise?
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Loads
• Limit Load: Load experienced once in a lifetime
• No remaining damage allowed
• Ultimate load: limit load x safety factor
• Failure allowed after 3 seconds
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Failure behavior materials
Within the limits of load diagram, Material should not fail
• Metal should not yield
• Composite should not damage
Displacement
Fo
rce
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Fokker F27 - innovations
New technical features:
1. turboprop with advanced propeller 2. Bonded metal structure 3. Significant application of fiber reinforced composites 4. Pneumatic high pressure system 5. De-icing system 6. Advanced undercarriage and braking system 7. Pressure cabin 8. Integral fuel tanks 9. Air-conditioning 10. Modern electronics
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Pressure cabin
p = p2 – p1
2..t = p. sin().Rd
= p.2R
circ = p.R/t
.2R.t = p.R2
long = p.R/2t
Ratio: circ/long = 2
R
p2
p2
p1
p1
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Example
Radius R = 2 m
Pressure at high altitude (11.000m) p1 = 22620 Pa (Pa = N/m2)
Pressure in the aircraft p = 70928 Pa (70% of sea level)
So circ = p.R/t
or .t = p.R = 96616 N/m
And long = ½ circ = 48308 N/m
for t = 1 mm circ = 96.6 MPa (=N/mm2)
t = 2 mm circ = 48.3 MPa
etc.
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Pressure Bulkhead are used to close the pressurized are of the fuselage.
Pressure cabin - bulkheads
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Fuselages are not perfectly closed cylinders: Due to practical use, the ideal cylinder is disturbed by cut outs for: • Windows
• Passenger Doors • Cargo doors • Landing Gear doors
Pressure cabin - cutouts
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Comet: first passenger jet aircraft
with pressure cabin
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Comet
First jet aircraft – Lead of British industry
Thin aluminum skin
Pressurized cabin – flying altitude (10 km +)
Stress concentration around windows/doors
Rectangular shapes
Squeezed in rivets (tiny cracks)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBcCv2UaiPo
End Result: Americans bypassed
British (Boeing 707/DC-8)
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Fatigue
Dynamic loading – repetitive
Example: Paperclip - try to break one!
One can with bending/unbending
(Repetitive) force smaller than breaking force destroys the part!!
See next slide – SN-curve
Constant Amplitude (CA) fatigue
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Fatigue
SN-curve
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Fatigue
In reality: Variable Amplitude (VA) fatigue
Flight spectrum
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Fatigue
Fatigue
Crack initiation
Crack growth
Two limits:
visibility limit (detection)
criticality limit (failure)
Inspection intervals
3 times between
visible and critical
a [mm]
Cycles N [-]
ini visible
critical
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Fatigue - locations
Wing loads:
- remous (variations in wind velocities)
- manoeuvres
- flaps, engine trust, etc.
Fuselage
- pressurization (once every flight)
- bending moments + remous & manoeuvres
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56 Structural concepts
Summary
• The Structure is the “skeleton” of the aircraft
• Function are: carrying loads, protection, attachment points
• From truss to beams: webplate + girders
• Most Structural Elements are based on “beam concept”
• After WW2: Jet Age; pressurized cabins
• Metal fatigue (Comet)