{"title":"Computational Investigation of a Flexible Airframe Taxiing Over an\u0000 Uneven Runway for Aircraft Vibration Testing","authors":"Lohay Al-bess, F. Khouli","doi":"10.4271/01-17-02-0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4271/01-17-02-0011","url":null,"abstract":"Ground vibration testing (GVT) is an important phase of the development, or the\u0000 structural modification of an aircraft program. The modes of vibration and their\u0000 associated parameters extracted from the GVT are used to modify the structural\u0000 model of the aircraft to make more reliable dynamics predictions to satisfy\u0000 certification authorities. Due to the high cost and the extensive preparations\u0000 for such tests, a new method of vibration testing called taxi vibration testing\u0000 (TVT) rooted in operational modal analysis (OMA) was recently proposed and\u0000 investigated by the German Institute for Aerospace Research (DLR) as alternative\u0000 to conventional GVT. In this investigation, a computational framework based on\u0000 fully coupled flexible multibody dynamics for TVT is presented to further\u0000 investigate the applicability of the TVT to flexible airframes. The time domain\u0000 decomposition (TDD) method for OMA was used to postprocess the response of the\u0000 airframe during a TVT. The framework was then used to examine the impact of the\u0000 taxiing speed, shock absorber damping coefficient, and bump geometry on the\u0000 outcome of the computational TVT. It was found that higher taxiing speed does\u0000 not necessarily mean a better quality TVT, and one must find the optimal speed\u0000 using the computational framework presented herein. A higher shock absorber\u0000 damping coefficient was found to increase the amplitude of the response during\u0000 the TVT without significantly impacting the extracted modes and their\u0000 frequencies. Also, the quality of the TVT was found to be inversely proportional\u0000 to the curvature of the bump cross section. The proposed TVT computational\u0000 framework is validated against the normal modal analysis technique and certain\u0000 experimental data.","PeriodicalId":44558,"journal":{"name":"SAE International Journal of Aerospace","volume":"45 S5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139000055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}