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A Method of Calculating Space Free Resonance Modes of an Aircraft

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

B. A. Hunn*
Affiliation:
Hawker Aircraft Ltd.

Extract

The problem of deducing resonance modes of vibration of an aircraft in free space is a concomitant of flutter calculations if the number of degrees of freedom used is to be small. When the structure is complex in that it involves wings, fuselage and tailplane, each of which possesses infinitely many normal modes, it becomes apparent that the number of point masses which must be considered, in constructing a dynamical equivalent to give a sufficient coverage of the frequency range in which flutter is likely, is very large. For example, it may be necessary to use four rods per wing and per tailplane and four point masses on the fuselage. This would involve 8 + 8 + 4 degrees of freedom, and if the usual technique of characteristic roots is used it would be necessary to consider a characteristic root matrix of order 20 × 20.

Type
Technical Notes
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1953

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