空天工程专业导论课程建设的探索与实践

以国防科学技术大学"空天工程导论"课程建设为例,开展了工程类专业导论课程建设方法研究,提出了新时代工程类专业人才需求标准的四个层次,构建了"三导型"课程建设目标,探索了多元化教学手段和教师团队建设方法,提出了包括理论知识、信息发掘与应用、道德素养、实践能力等四个方面的多维度评价方法。课程建设对于培养学生的专业兴趣、自主学习习惯、团队协作精神等方面取得了显著成效。

工程教育观视域下的空天工程科技创新人才培养体系建设探索--评《创新人才培养体系研究与建设:空天工程CDIO与领导力计划实践》

工程教育观视域下,应用型创新人才培养逐渐引起国内外高等院校教育教学改革者的研究与思考。空天工程作为工程性、创新性、实践性、系统性、团队合作性极强的多学科交叉领域,对工程应用型人才要求颇高。教育者需建立以工程能力培养为导向、以大工程的系统思维培养为基础、以设计制造空天装备卓越性能的创新力为目标的工程教育观,强调工程教育的实践性,注重空天工程专业学生知识能力的综合性和多样性培养。

Vibration Suppression Analysis for Supporter with Constrained Layer Damping

By analyzing the correlation between modal calculations and modal experiments of a typical supporter, an effective finite element analysis( FEA)model of the actual aerospace supporter is created. According to the analysis of constrained viscoelastic damping, the strategies of PVC have been worked out, and the correlation between modal calculations and modal experiments of the supporter has also been computed, and then, an experiment has been designed based on the calculation results. The results of experiments verify that the PVC strategy can effectively suppress vibration.

Experimental Tests of the Operating Conditions of a Micro Gas Turbine Device

The aim of this work is to analyze the performance of a commercial micro gas turbine, focusing on the analysis of the fuel consumption and the outlet compressor and turbine temperature at various rpm, and to evaluate and compare the efficiency of the device. A test bench has been assembled with the available equipment in the laboratory of the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering in Roma. By using the software supplied by the manufacturer, the evaluation of the operating performance of the device at different speeds has been performed, obtaining all the values of interest.

Structural Aerospace Composite/Metallic Samples under Fatigue Loads： Experimental Activity on Three Case Studies

The use of composite materials in aerospace engineering is ever increasing. Properties such as low weight, high performance, high stiffness and the ability for it to be tailored specifically for different structural uses has increased its importance in recent years. Specific experimental/numerical activities were developed in the last decade at the aerospace department of Polito and are under consideration in recent years regarding the analysis of fatigue behavior of composite/metallic structural samples under cyclic loading condition. A review of the main significant results connected to three case-studies is presented in the paper. The first is related to the definition and analysis of innovative joint for composite high aspect ratio aircraft structures. The modular design oriented to limit component dimensions for transportability requires the presence of a removable joints able to overcome the typical low bearing failure level of composite pin-loaded joint under static and fatigue loading distribution according to airworthiness requirements. The static experiments demonstrate the consistency of the proposed advanced joint configuration that postpones the joint failure to high load level according to the structural requirements. The cyclic loading phase takes as reference point the failure load of the initial configuration and defines a loading cycle with a maximum higher than the failure load of the initial configuration. The fatigue behavior of the advanced joint also demonstrates a substantial consistency with expected duration of 1 e6 cycles as required by the structural design for operating reasons. Specific indication on fatigue limit with respect to critical amplitude is reported. The second is related to the presence of specific damaged situation in thin-walled fiat/stiffened composite plate. Stiffened configurations are frequently used to increase buckling load level. Unexpected events on solid/stiffened composite panels can introduce a certain level of damage, typically delamination, that can cause reduction in buckling design level and reduction in global strength. The presence of cyclic load and fatigue effect can have an important consequence on damage propagation and structural integrity. The damaged area determined by the skin-stiffener de-bonding of a certain dimension is investigated under static compression and cyclic compression. Local buckling of damaged area is determined and pointed out by tests in uniaxial compression. The experimental static behavior points out the presence of a snap-effect during loading and un-loading. Fatigue loading configuration is applied in the range of post-critical local configuration considered as the most effective situation. Preliminary fatigue results are presented and discussed. The third is related to preliminary investigation on the effect of fatigue life reduction of 2024 AI alloy in corrosive （exfoliation） environment. The effect of corrosion is taken into consideration introducing specific concentration factors into the life estimation relationship. Differences between fatigue in prior corroded specimens and fatigue in presence of corrosive environment are emphasized. No crack propagation is considered. Related concentration factors are derived and compared by the few experimental results in order to define some guidelines for design process and to improve aircraft better evaluation of component structural integrity in operative situations. A preliminary approach is presented in the paper in order to correctly identify the contribution of corrosive environment in coupled fatigue loading phase. The results are discussed and future improvements are suggested.

Value Creation for the After-Sales Services： Organizational and Strategic Perspectives

As a part of the product development process, the after-sales services are not only a source of innovation, but also they benefit from value creation through new managerial methodologies for the achievement of competitive advantage and customer satisfaction. The objective of the paper is to further understand value creation for the after-sales services. We present the case of the creation of a new business for the after-sales services for the entrance into a new market. The new business is created by two gurus in the aerospace industry. A typology of guidelines is derived, based on organizational and strategic perspectives, for the after-sales services value creation and the guidelines for the creation of a new business as well as for the entrance of into a new market are presented.

A survey of numerical algorithms for trajectory optimization of flight vehicles

As one of the important components of computational flight mechanics and control,numerical algorithms of trajectory optimization for flight vehicles are currently studied by many researchers in aerospace engineering to completely solve these difficult problems,but few papers on the survey of this research field have been published recently.Based on the investigation of more than one hundred literatures,considering the application perspectives of computational flight mechanics and recent developments of trajectory optimization,the numerical algorithms of trajectory optimizations for aerospace vehicles are summarized and systematically analyzed.This paper summarized the basic principle,characteristics and application for all kinds of current trajectory optimization algorithms;and introduced some new methods and theories appearing in recent years.Finally,collaborative trajectory optimization for many flight vehicles,and hypersonic vehicle trajectory optimization were mainly reviewed in this paper.In the conclusion of this paper,the future research properties are presented regarding to numerical algorithms of trajectory optimization and control for flight vehicles as follows:collaboration and antagonization for many flight vehicles and multiple targets,global,real-time online,high accuracy of 7-D trajectory,considering all kinds of unknown random disturbances in trajectory optimization,and so on.

A perspective on high-order methods in computational fluid dynamics

There has been an intensive international effort to develop high-order Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD) methods into design tools in aerospace engineering during the last one and half decades. These methods offer the potential to significantly improve solution accuracy and efficiency for vortex dominated turbulent flows. Enough progresses have been made in algorithm development, mesh generation and parallel computing that these methods are on the verge of being applied in a production design environment. Since many review papers have been written on the subject, I decide to offer a personal perspective on the state-of-the-art in high-order CFD methods and the challenges that must be overcome.

Problems of the conventional BL model as applied to super/hypersonic turbulent boundary layers and its improvements

Turbulence modeling has played important roles in solving engineering problems. However, with the development of aero-space technology, turbulence modeling faces new challenges. How to further improve turbulence modeling for su-per/hypersonic flows is an urgent problem. Through analyzing a set of data resulting from DNS and experiments, it is foundthat some most popular models suffer from essential flaws, and can be hardly improved following the traditional mode ofthinking. On the contrary, the BL model, which is one of the simplest and widely-used models, can be further improved. In thispaper, through analyzing results from DNS data, the main cause of the inaccuracy in applying the BL model to supersonic andhypersonic turbulent boundary layers is found to have resulted from the mismatch between the location of the matching pointof the inner and outer layers of the BL model determined by the conventional way and those given by DNS. Improvement onthis point, as well as other improvements is proposed. Its effectiveness is verified through the comparison with DNS results.

A Survey of Repetitive Control for Nonlinear Systems

In aerospace engineering and industry, control tasks are often of a periodic nature,while repetitive control is especially suitable for tracking and rejection of periodic exogenous signals.Because of limited research effort on nonlinear systems, we give a survey of repetitive control for nonlinear systems in this paper.First,a brief introduction of repetitive control is presented.Then,after giving a brief overview of repetitive control for linear systems,this paper summarizes design methods and existing problems of repetitive control for nonlinear systems in detail.Lastly,relationships between repetitive control and other control schemes are analyzed to recognize repetitive control from different aspects more insightfully.

A new robust design for imperfection sensitive stiffened cylinders used in aerospace engineering

A knock-down factor is commonly used to take into account the obvious decline of the buckling load in a cylindrical shell caused by the inevitable imperfections. In 1968, NASA guideline SP-8007 gave knock-down factors which rely on a lower-bound curve taken from experimental data. Recent research has indicated that the NASA knock-down factors are inclined to produce very conservative estimations for the buckling load of imperfect shells, due to the limitations of the computational power and the experimental skills available five decades ago. A novel knock-down factor is proposed composed of two parts for the metallic stiffened cylinders. A deterministic study is applied to achieve the first part of the knock-down factor considering the measured geometric imperfection, the other types of imperfections are considered in the second part using a stochastic analysis. A smeared model is used to achieve the implementation of the measured geometric imperfection for the stiffened cylinder. This new robust and less conservative design for the stiffened cylinders is validated by using test results.