AE 686

1.

Assignment 4

Due: Nov 04, 2014

Justify the following:

(a) Pitch-flap flutter does not depend on thrust level?
(b) A great effort is made to place cg and elastic axis at the quarter-chord
position.
(c) A 3 can be beneficial from gust point of view.
(d) Pitch divergence does not depend on elastic axis position.
(e) The Coriolis forces produce a 2/rev lag motion proportional to the
square of the 1/rev flap amplitude.
(f) For conventional rotors, axial dynamics can be ignored from the equation
of motion.

2.

For a hingeless rotor, the pitch bearing is located at 2 ft. from the rotation axis
and the pitch link is positioned 1 ft towards the leading edge. The nonrotating
flap frequency was determined experimentally to be 1 Hz. Calculate
approximately the effective pitch-flap coupling (3 angle) for a 40 ft. diameter
rotor with Lock number = 8 and rotation speed = 300 RPM if the
introduction of pitch-flap coupling increases the rotating flap frequency by
25%.

3. An articulated rotor with a flap hinge offset of 6%, Lock number of = 8, feather to flap
inertia ratio of .001, rotor radius of 20 ft., chord of 1 ft., and non-rotating torsional
frequency of 14 Hz. The cg and the elastic axis lie at 35% chord position.
(a) Calculate whether the blade is stable from pitch divergence at an
operating speed of 420 RPM.
(b) Is this blade stable from pitch-flap flutter?