MULTI-BODY AEROELASTIC STABILITY ANALYSIS OF TILTROTOR AIRCRAFT IN HELICOPTER MODE

The muhi-body analysis of the aeroelastic stability of the tiltrotor aircraft is presented. Muhi-body dynamic differential equations are combined with the equations of the unsteady dynamic inflow model to establish the complete unsteadily aeroelastic coupling analytical model of the tiltrotor. The stability of the tiltrotor in the helicopter mode is analyzed aiming at a semi span soft-inplane tihrotor model with an elastic wing. Parametric effects of the lag stiffness of blades and the flight speed are analyzed. Numerical simulations demonstrate that the multibody analytical model can analyze the aeroelastic stability of the tiltrotor aircraft in the helicopter mode.

Nonlinear multi body dynamic modeling and vibration analysis of a double drum coal shearer

The double drum coal shearer is widely applied for the underground coal exploration in the mining industry.The vibration and noise control are significant factors for the stability design of the double drum coal shearer.In this paper,the vibration properties of a double drum coal shearer are firstly investigated.The horizontal,transverse and torsional vibrations of the motor body and the angle displacements of the rockers are taken into account.The walking units and the hydraulic units are modeled by the stiffness-damping systems.The nonlinear equation of motion of the double drum coal shearer is established by applying the Lagrange’s equation.The nonlinear vibration response of the system is calculated by using the Runge Kutta numerical method.The effects of the shearing loads,the equivalent damping and stiffness of the walking units,the inclination angels of the rockers and the equivalent damping and stiffness of the hydraulic units on the vibration properties of the system are discussed.

Development of a Flexible Multibody Model to Simulate Nonlinear Effects in Printing Process

Modern high speed printing machines are able to print up to 700 m/min. At this rate, little excita-tions lead to vibrations, which may lead to loss of contact between the rollers (bouncing). This bouncing results in white stripes, being visible on the printed image. To enable the simulation of the whole printing process, including effects like bouncing, a discrete multibody model is developed. The rollers are modeled by several rigid bodies. These bodies are connected to each other by rotational springs, which allow simulation of the first bending eigenmodes of each roller. The contact area between the rollers is modeled by several nonlinear translational springs and damping elements. These elements change their stiffness and damping values depending on the distance between the rollers. If a defined distance is exceeded, the values become zero, which represents the loss of contact (bouncing). The unknown spring and damping elements of this model are parametrized with help of an experimental modal analysis. This paper presents the development of a flexible multibody model to simulate nonlinear effects in printing process.

STUDY ON THE COMPENSATION TECHNIQUE OF POSITIONING ERRORS FOR NC MACHINE TOOLS

Through analysis of the basic transformation of a typical body,the error transformations of the position vector and the displacement vector are employed,a general model for positioning errors of NC machine tools by using kinematics of the multi body system is discussed.By means of 8031 single chip system,intelligent error compensation controller has been developed.The results of experiments on XH714 machining center show that the positioning accuracy is enhanced effectively by more than 50%.

Useful zero friction simulations for assessing MBS codes Pascal’s formula giving wheelsets frequency for zero wheel-rail friction

Present study provides a simple analytical formula,the“Klingel-like formula”or“Pascal’s Formula”that can be used as a reference to test some results of existing railway codes and specifically those using rigid contact.It develops properly the 3D Newton-Euler equations governing the 6 degrees of freedom(DoF)of unsuspended loaded wheelsets in case of zero wheel-rail friction and constant conicity.Thus,by solving numerically these equations,we got pendulum like harmonic oscillations of which the calculated angular frequency is used for assessing the accuracy of the proposed formula so that it can in turn be used as a fast practical target for testing multi-body system(MBS)railway codes.Due to the harmonic property of these pendulum-like oscillations,the squareω2 of their angular frequency can be made in the form of a ratio K/M where K depends on the wheelset geometry and load and M on its inertia.Information on K and M are useful to understand wheelsets behavior.The analytical formula is derived from the first order writing of full trigonometric Newton-Euler equations by setting zero elastic wheel-rail penetration and by assuming small displacements.Full trigonometric equations are numerically solved to assess that the formula providesω2 inside a 1%accuracy for usual wheelsets dimensions.By decreasing the conicity down to 1×10^(−4) rad,the relative formula accuracy is under 3×10^(−5).In order to test the formula reliability for rigid contact formulations,the stiffness of elastic contacts can be increased up to practical rigidity(Hertz stiffness×1000).

On Self Recovery Mechanism and Additional Maneuverability of a Mini Mobile Robot

Ordinary mobile robots have some kind of moving mechanisms attached to one rigid body. When working on rough terrain or in other hazard environments, there existed some possibilities that the robot will be turned up side down, thus causing losses to the robot's expedition. Multi bodied mobile robots provide a solution to that problem. Using active joints between bodies, the robot can recover from turnover situation by itself. In this paper, the authors discuss the joint arrangements and the additional maneuverability resulted from joints between body segments.

Modeling of large scale solar cell handling robot with belt-driven flexible arms

To increase the competition of the solar energy collection system, the size of the solar panel module during the manufacturing process is being increased continuously. As the size of the solar panel increases, the size of the robot to handle the panel increased also. The change in scale of the robot inevitably results ill the amplification of the adverse effect of tile flexure. The main source of the flexure in the large scale solar cell panel handling system is the long and thin fork fingers of the [land and the solar cell panel. In addition, tile belt-driven actuator system used by most of the large scale panel handling robot is another significant source of the vibration. In this paper, the flexible multi body dynamic model of a large scale solar cell panel handling robot, which is being designed and constructed with the help of Kyung Hee University, is developed. The belt-driven system in the robot is also modeled as flexible system and included ill the robot to represent the actual vibration characteristics of the actuator system. C 2013 The Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. [doi： 10.1063/2.1301310]

Unsteady cooperative flow in compression system

When there are several bodies with relative motion in a flow field,such as the flow in the compression system of modern aero-engine,the flow field will have certain special features,one of which is that the time-space structure of such multi-bodies unsteady vorticity flow field would be either of unsteady natural flow(UNF)pattern or of unsteady cooperative flow(UCF)pattern.If we further examine the aerodynamic design system of aero-engine,there is no mechanism for the unsteady cooperative flow to occur,in other words the flow field must be of the unsteady natural flow type.If certain technical measures can be adopted to transform UNF into UCF,the aerodynamic performances will surely be improved.This is the main task the author and their colleague have been devoted to and the results are reviewed in the present paper with emphases laid on basic ideas,technical approaches and experimental verifications.