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A Method to Analyze Tail Buffet Loads of Aircraft

Author
Moses, Robert W.
Published
[2005].
Physical Description
1 electronic document
Additional Creators
Pototzky, Anthony S.
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Summary
Aircraft designers commit significant resources to the design of aircraft in meeting performance goals. Despite fulfilling traditional design requirements, many fighter aircraft have encountered buffet loads when demonstrating their high angle-of-attack maneuver capabilities. As a result, during test or initial production phases of fighter development programs, many new designs are impacted, usually in a detrimental way, by resulting in reassessing designs or limiting full mission capability. These troublesome experiences usually stem from overlooking or completely ignoring the effects of buffet during the design phase of aircraft. Perhaps additional requirements are necessary that addresses effects of buffet in achieving best aircraft performance in fulfilling mission goals. This paper describes a reliable, fairly simple, but quite general buffet loads analysis method to use in the initial design phases of fighter-aircraft development. The method is very similar to the random gust load analysis that is now commonly available in a commercial code, which this analysis capability is based, with some key modifications. The paper describes the theory and the implementation of the methodology. The method is demonstrated on a JSF prototype example problem. The demonstration also serves as a validation of the method, since, in the paper, the analysis is shown to nearly match the flight data. In addition, the paper demonstrates how the analysis method can be used to assess candidate design concepts in determining a satisfactory final aircraft configuration.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
Note
Document ID: 20050199656.
RTO-MP-AVT-123.
Paper 19-1.
RTO/AVT-123: Symposium on Flow Induced Unsteady Loads and the Impact on Military Applications; 25-29 Apr. 2005; Budapest; Hungary.
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