CONTENTS

 AEROELASTICITY &

COLLARS TRIANGLE

 NECESSITY

 HISTORY

 CLASSIFICATIONS

 PRECAUTIONS

 FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS
INTRODUCTION
 Aereolasticity is the study of the interaction of inertial,
structural and aerodynamic forces on aircraft, buildings,
surface vehicles etc.
NECESSITY:
 STUDY OF CATASTROPHIC
EFFECTS
 STUDY OF AERODYNAMIS
IN ROTOR DESIGN
 WIND MILLS & WIND
GENERATORS]
 WIND ENERGY INDUSTRY
A BIT OF HISTORY:
Control surface flutter
became a frequent
phenomenon during
World War-I.

It was solved by placing a

mass balance around the
control surface hinge line
HISTORIC EXAMPLES:
• Handley Page O/400 (elevators-fuselage)
• Junkers JU90 (fluttered during flight flutter
test)
• P80, F100, F14 (transonic aileron buzz)
• T46A (servo tab flutter)
• F16, F18 (external stores LCO, buffeting)
• F111 (external stores LCO)
• F117, E-6 (vertical fin flutter)
 AERO ELASTICITY

STATIC DYNAMIC
AEROELASTICITY AEROELASTICITY

CONTROL
DIVERGENCE
REVERSAL
FLUTTER BUFFETING TRANSONIC
 AERO ELASTICITY
STATIC DYNAMIC
 Deals with the static  Deals with the
or steady response of an body’s dynamic response.
elastic body to a fluid flow.

 Effects:  Effects:
 Divergence  Flutter
 Control reversal  Buffetting
 Transonic
Aero elasticity
STATIC AEROELASTICITY
DIVERGENCE:
Divergence is a phenomenon in which the elastic twist
of the wing suddenly becomes theoretically infinite,
typically causing the wing to fail spectacularly.

CONTROL REVERSAL:
Control reversal is a phenomenon occurring only in
wings with ailerons or other control surfaces, in which
these control surfaces reverse their usual functionality
DYNAMIC AEROELASTICITY
FLUTTER:
 Dynamic instability of an elastic structure in a fluid
flow.
 Cause: positive feedback between the body's deflection
and the force exerted by the fluid flow.
BUFFETING:
 A high-frequency instability, caused by airflow
separation or shock wave oscillations from one object
striking another.
BUFFETING:
CAUSE:
Sudden impulse of load
increasing.

EFFECT:
Generally it affects the tail unit of the aircraft structure
due to air flow downstream of the wing.
TRANSONIC AERO ELASTICITY:
 A phenenenon that impacts stability of aircraft known as
'transonic dip', in which the flutter speed can get close to
flight speed
PRECAUTIONS:
 Aeroelastic Design (Divergence, Flutter,
Control Reversal)
 Wind tunnel testing (Aeroelastic scaling)
 Ground Vibration Testing (Complete
modal analysis of aircraft structure)
 Flight Flutter Testing (Demonstrate that
flight envelope is flutter free)
FUTURE OF AEROELASTICITY
 Aeroelasticity is a very vibrant research topic.
 Several improvements to aeroelastic design processes
being developed are:
–Very large, fully coupled CFD/CSD aeroelastic models
–Aeroelastic tailoring
–Active aeroelastic structures