Design of Helicopter Rotor Blades with Actuators Made of a Piezomacrofiber Composite

Mechanics of Composite Materials 2008
Sergejs Gluhih, Jevgenijs Barkanovs, Andrejs Kovaļovs, Pierangelo Masarati, Marco Morandini, Johannes Riemenschneider, Peter Wierach

For reducing the vibration and noise of helicopter rotor blades, the method of their controlled twisting by using built-in deformation actuators is employed. In this paper, the influence of various design parameters of the blades, including the location of actuators made of a piezomacrofiber material, on the twist angle is evaluated. The results of a parametric analysis performed allowed us to refine the statement of an optimization problem for the rotor blades.

Keywords
Active twist, macro-fiber composite ( MFC ), helicopter rotor blade, design
DOI
10.1007/s11029-008-0007-9
Hyperlink
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11029-008-0007-9

Gluhih, S., Barkanovs, J., Kovaļovs, A., Masarati, P., Morandini, M., Riemenschneider, J., Wierach, P. Design of Helicopter Rotor Blades with Actuators Made of a Piezomacrofiber Composite. Mechanics of Composite Materials, 2008, Vol.44, Iss.1, pp.57-64. ISSN 0191-5665. e-ISSN 1573-8922. Available from: doi:10.1007/s11029-008-0007-9

Publication language
English (en)