DiPaRT 2011 Presentations:

On December 8th 2011 we held the second of our DiPaRT Loads and Aeroelastics workshops, co-organized and co-chaired by Stirling Dynamics and Airbus. As with the previous year, we had a great turnout from industry and academia with some excellent presentations (click here for a full list of attendees).  This was another very successful event with positive feedback from those who attended. The Loads and Aeroelastics session kicked off with an introduction by Simon Hancock reviewing the activities and achievements of the L&A hub over the last 12 months. The highlights included the setting up of a DiPaRT website and newsletter and support to a number of academic projects. Rene Meissner of Airbus Hamburg then gave a keynote talk on the current state of the art on loads monitoring within Airbus. The remainder of the day then consisted of a series of presentations on various loads and aeroelastics topics. Copies of all the presentations can be downloaded from the links below:

Summary of days 1& 2 - Aero Technologies and Flow Control sessions

• DiPaRT Aero Technologies 2011 – A review of activities

Multi-Disciplinary Loads and Aeroelastics Optimized Aircraft

• Virtual Prototyping and MDO of Aircraft Structures – Georgia Georgio (University of Liverpool)
• Experimental Identification on nonlinear structures – Yazdi Harmin/Jonathan Cooper (University of Liverpool)
• Metallic aeroelastic tailoring – Yazdi Harmin/Jonathan Cooper (University of Liverpool)
• Aero–structural Topology Optimisation: Preliminary results – Vincent Seow (University of Bath)

Active Aeroelasticity and Loads Control

• Robust Control Methods for Gust Alleviation and Stabilization of Flexible Aircraft – Robert Cook (Imperial College).
• Nonlinear Model Reduction for Flexible Aircraft Control Design – Andrea Da Ronch (University of Liverpool)
• Active Control for Flutter Suppression and Gust Loads Alleviation – John Mottershead/Jonathan Cooper (University of Liverpool)
• Optimal positioning of control surfaces for aeroelastic wing – Ronan Goachet (University of Liverpool/Stirling Dynamics)
• CLAReT (Control and Alleviation of Loads in Advanced Regional Turbo–Fan Configurations) – Simon Hancock (Stirling Dynamics), Naomi Allen (ARA)

Advanced Modelling and Simulation

• Overview of Bristol University activities on ground dynamics – Etienne Coetzee (University of Bristol/Airbus)
• Main landing gear shimmy – Chris Howcroft (University of Bristol)
• Interactions between a nose gear and fuselage motions and hybrid testing – Nandor Terkovics (University of Bristol)
• LG mechanism analysis – James Knowles (University of Bristol)
• Recent Developments Towards Computational Gust Modelling – Oubay Hassan (University of Swansea)
• Stability analysis of coupled aeroelastic/flight dynamics equations using unsteady vortex–lattice aerodynamics – Joseba Murua (Imperial College)
• Fast flutter method demonstration – Ken Badcock (University of Liverpool)
• Worst Case Gust Load Prediction – Hamed Khodoparast (University of Liverpool)
• Prediction of effect of uncertainties for gust response prediction – Hamed Khodoparast (University of Liverpool)

DiPaRT 2010 Presentations:

Mulit-disciplinary loads and aeroelastic optimised aircraft

Active aeroelasticity and loads control

Advanced modelling & simulation

Management of uncertainty

Load Monitoring

Optimised virtual testing

• Development of Optimisation & V&V Approaches for Reduced Testing (J. Forest & J. Cooper, Liverpool)

For further information on DiPaRT Loads and Aeroelastic activities, please contact:

Dr. Simon Hancock, Research and Development Manager, Aircraft Loads and Aerodynamics, Stirling Dynamics Ltd.

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Telephone: +44 (0) 117 9152 524

Or

Thomas Wilson, Transnational Head of Aircraft Ground Loads, Flight Physics, Loads and Aeroelastics, EGLLG, Airbus.

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Telephone: +44 (0) 117 9360 527

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DiPaRT Loads and Aeroelastics

DiPaRT Loads and Aeroelastic Hub News and Events

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