Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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797085 | Journal of Fluids and Structures | 2012 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
Different representations for a control surface freeplay nonlinearity in a three degree of freedom aeroelastic system are assessed. These are the discontinuous, polynomial and hyperbolic tangent representations. The Duhamel formulation is used to model the aerodynamic loads. Assessment of the validity of these representations is performed through comparison with previous experimental observations. The results show that the instability and nonlinear response characteristics are accurately predicted when using the discontinuous and hyperbolic tangent representations. On the other hand, the polynomial representation fails to predict chaotic motions observed in the experiments.
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Authors
R. Vasconcellos, A. Abdelkefi, F.D. Marques, M.R. Hajj,