WO2001019673A1 - Perfectionnements aux aeronefs convertibles a rotors basculants - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to improvements made to convertible aircraft with tilting rotors, capable of operating in airplane mode and in helicopter mode, and of the type comprising at least one fuselage, at least one tail with at least one fin, a fixed wing comprising at least two wings extending laterally on either side of said fuselage, and, in helicopter mode, a rotary wing comprising at least two rotors, each of which is supported and driven in rotation by one respectively of two driving nacelles each supported by one respectively of the two fixed wings extending from the fuselage to the corresponding nacelle, each rotor being mounted tilting with at least one front part, which supports said rotor, from the corresponding nacelle, on the corresponding fixed wing and around a tilt axis substantially transverse to the fuselage, to switch from one to the other of the helicopter mode and the airplane mode, in which the rotors serve as a propeller
- these convertible aircraft can operate in helicopter mode or configuration, in particular for landings and take-offs, during which the rotors rotate above the fixed wings, around substantially vertical axes to ensure the lift of the aircraft. aircraft, and in airplane mode or configuration, in which the rotors are tilted relative to the fixed wings to function as propellers
- Each rotor has its shaft connected by a respective transmission to a respective motor, the transmission and the motor being housed in the corresponding nacelle supported by the corresponding fixed wing, an interconnection shaft connecting the two transmissions, for the rotary drive.
- US-A-5,054,716 describes a first example of convertible aircraft of this type, on which each of the rotors constitutes, with its control means , the corresponding engine and the corresponding transmission, a tilting assembly housed, with the exception of the blades and of the rotor hub, in a nacelle entirely pivotally mounted cantilevered at the end of a corresponding fixed wing.
- each transmission includes a front reduction unit, driving the rotor in rotation, and a rear reduction unit, engaged with the corresponding front reduction unit and connected to the corresponding motor, as well as to the interconnection shaft connecting the two transmissions.
- Each of the two nacelles is articulated and has a front part, pivotally mounted, around the tilting axis, on a fixed rear part of the nacelle, fixed to the corresponding fixed wing, and in which the rear part of the nacelle are housed the motor. corresponding and at least partially the rear reducer assembly of the corresponding transmission.
- the front reduction assembly as well as the corresponding rotor shaft are housed in the tilting front part of the nacelle, and are mounted tilting with said front part relative to said rear part and said corresponding wing.
- vibration filtration systems by resonators or by force generators controlled by computers is known, but these systems generally comprise assemblies with masses and springs which are very penalizing in weight.
- control of the roll in airplane mode is normally ensured by the use of surfaces directional command and / or control, each pivotally mounted about an axis substantially transverse to the aircraft, along the trailing edge of each of the fixed wings, and these orientable surfaces also serve to provide the aircraft with high lift at low speed in airplane mode and the reduction of the downforce of the wing in helicopter mode.
- each fixed wing has a relatively large number of such control and / or control surfaces along its trailing edge, and these orientable surfaces must be controlled by a large number of actuators and can be connected by complex mechanical connections allowing in particular negative deflections (upwards) as well as asymmetrical deflections of these surfaces between the two wings, while limiting the risks of embarkation in roll linked to asymmetrical deflections of these orientable surfaces , called by the English term “flaperon”, because being able to fulfill the functions of shutter and fin, and thus of control surfaces of high lift and warping.
- US-A-5,094,412 describes means of complex structure and control of such “flaperons”, also called “elevons”, for a convertible aircraft according to the aforementioned US-A-5,054,716.
- the problem underlying the invention is to improve convertible aircraft of the aforementioned type, mainly, in terms of active vibration control, avoiding the addition of significant additional masses to essentially counteract the excitations caused by the rotors, and , secondly, to facilitate the control of the aircraft in roll in airplane mode.
- the invention also relates to improvements made to convertible aircraft of the aforementioned type to give them the ability to land in airplane mode (without prior conversion from the airplane configuration to the helicopter configuration). This possibility reduces the criticality of rotor tilting mechanisms, insofar as the landing remains possible, without damage to the aircraft, regardless of the position of the rotors.
- the second problem underlying the invention is to remedy these drawbacks by the use of relatively large rotors, dimensioned to optimize performance in hover, with a cyclic pitch control (which does not generally exist not on tilting wing designs) and collective step for good behavior of the convertible aircraft in helicopter mode and during conversion, such large rotors being tilting relative to fixed wings, to preserve the benefits specific to this type of airfoil, in particular to limit drag in forward flight in helicopter mode (to improve takeoff performance in the event of an engine failure) compared to a fully or partially tilting wing, and which allows good behavior during conversion.
- the airfoil of the convertible aircraft is designed to allow landing in airplane mode despite the presence of relatively large rotors.
- each fixed wing is extended, substantially according to its size and towards the exterior of the corresponding nacelle with respect to the fuselage, by at least one external portion of wing, of which at least one part pivots, independently of the rotor and at least the front part of the corresponding nacelle, around an axis of articulation substantially transverse to the aircraft and constitutes an orientable control and / or control surface, the pivoting of which around the articulation axis is controlled at least at a frequency of the order of Kb ⁇ , where b and ⁇ are respectively the number of blades and the frequency of rotation of each rotor, and K an integer at least equal to 1, by at least one actuator piloted, so as to at least attenuate, at the level of the fuselage of the fixed wings and the empennage ( s) and die shore (s), at least the vibrations naturally generated by each rotating rotor.
- the orientable and / or external control and / or control surfaces, at the wing tip can be used to perform a active control of the vibrations produced by one and / or the other of the phenomena known as of “whirl flutter” (or gyroscopic floating) and of “tail shake”, of which one recalls that the first phenomenon is an aeroelastic instability, coming from the looping between a rotor and the corresponding wing at high speed in airplane mode, while the second phenomenon corresponds to vibrations of the tail boom or of the rear parts of the nacelles and of the fuselage of a convertible aircraft, said tail beam or parts rear of nacelles and fuselage being excited by the breath of the rotors at frequencies of a few Hertz, and frequently close to 4 Hz.
- This active control makes it possible to reduce the stiffness, and therefore the mass, of each wing for a given maximum speed and / or to increase the maximum speed of the aircraft.
- the pivoting of the directional control and / or control surface is transiently controlled by the actuator controlled at a frequency less than Kb ⁇ and of the order of 4 to 6 Hz, to counter the phenomenon of “whirl flutter ", Or on the order of a few Hz, in general on the order of 4 Hz, to counter the" tail shake "phenomenon.
- the external orientable command and / or control surfaces In their integration into an active anti-vibration system, the external orientable command and / or control surfaces, arranged in elevations operating in small piloted fins or active aerodynamic flaps, located at the end of the wing, generate aerodynamic forces, which are used to counteract the excitations caused by the rotors, avoiding the addition of additional masses.
- a convertible aircraft of the type presented above is thus equipped with a self-adaptive anti-vibration system based on the external orientable command and / or control surfaces, or external elevators, functioning as piloted fins and / or flaps aerodynamics active at the wing tip, and whose steering angle, and therefore the incidence, is controlled by at least one computer controlling at least one maneuver actuator, a first actuator being controlled at the frequency b ⁇ , a possible second actuator being controlled at the frequency 2b ⁇ , a possible third actuator at the frequency 3b ⁇ , etc., in order to generate aerodynamic forces directed against the excitation forces of the rotors, and thus making it possible to minimize the vibratory level in the fuselage, the empennage (s) and fin (s), the fixed wings and the possible fixed rear parts of the nacelles of the aircraft, this anti-vibration system being particularly good pte in airplane mode.
- the actuator is an excitation cylinder, slaved in displacement, maneuvering the directional control and / or control surface, against elastic means of static tuning. / and dynamic, and automatically controlled by at least one active and self-adaptive vibration control computer, which controls the actuator on the basis of signals received from sensors, in particular forces, accelerometric and gyrometric, arranged in at least determined points of the fuselage and / or the rotors, and / or the empennage (s) and drift (s), in particular.
- the elastic means take up the static forces of the orientable surface, and, in dynamics, their stiffness is coupled to the inertia of the moving assembly comprising at least said orientable surface and the movable parts of the jack so as to create a second-order resonant system, the resonant frequency of the moving assembly being adjusted to the excitation frequency of the jack, which considerably reduces the control forces, and therefore the size of the jack.
- the excitation frequency of the jack is normally adjusted substantially to a frequency of approximately 20 Hz.
- the excitation frequency of the actuator is advantageously temporarily adjusted to a frequency of approximately 4 Hz to approximately 6 Hz, when said sensors detect signals testifying to at least one of these two phenomena, then, after attenuation or even disappearance of the phenomenon, the excitation frequency of the actuator is again adjusted substantially to the frequency b ⁇ .
- Such an external orientable surface (outside of a nacelle) can also receive a differential control, relative to the orientable surface outside of the other nacelle, and operate in a fin controlling the warping and allowing the control of the aircraft in roll in airplane mode, with the fast dynamics required, the roll control provided by the over- external orientable faces being thus decoupled from the functions of high lift and reduction of lift which can be fulfilled, with slower dynamics, by other internal orientable command and / or control surfaces (between the nacelles and the fuselage) on the trailing edges of fixed wings.
- the excitation cylinder of each elevon or external orientable surface is also controllable by pilot commands (actuated by the crew of the convertible aircraft), in particular of warping.
- the control of the excitation cylinder by the vibration control computer is neutralized during the control of the excitation cylinder by the pilot commands.
- EP-0 416 590 and US Pat. No. 3,666,209 disclose convertible aircraft, the airfoil of which comprises aerodynamic bearing and pivoting surfaces outside (depending on the scale) of driving nacelles and of a portion of fixed internal wing.
- each driving nacelle pivots with a wing portion around the tilting axis, so that these convertibles have the aforementioned third convertible aircraft architecture called “tiltwing”, and their pivoting and external aerodynamic surfaces are intended to correct variations in attitude of the aircraft around its center of gravity, and are therefore control surfaces activated by means of the flight controls located in the cockpit.
- Each flight command or pilot command makes it possible to move the aircraft around one of its roll, pitch and yaw axes.
- these moving surfaces can be likened to fins allowing warping (rotation about the roll axis) in flight in airplane mode or a yaw movement in vertical flight in helicopter mode.
- the pivoting parts of the external wing portions are, unlike EP-0 416 590 and US-3,666,209, elevons, the functions of which have been defined above, and which are self-piloted to minimize, in the structure of the aircraft, vibrations which are at least of the three aforementioned types: vibrations generated by the rotors in normal operation, and by the “tail shake” and “whirl flutter” phenomena.
- the external orientable surfaces according to the invention can also be used to reduce the rate of descent of the aircraft in autorotation of the rotors (in the event of failure of the two engines) by participating in the lift of the aircraft if these external orientable surfaces are oriented in the wind bed.
- each external wing portion can be a pivoting elevon of the trailing edge of a fixed and external wing portion, which thus constitutes the end of the corresponding fixed wing, beyond the corresponding nacelle.
- each external portion of wing can be a part of external wing which is entirely pivotable about the axis of articulation, so that the whole part of wing outside of a nacelle can be arranged as an elevon pivoting about its axis of articulation relative to the adjacent nacelle and the corresponding fixed wing.
- the convertible aircraft according to the invention is such that its fixed wings are high wings secured to the upper part of the fuselage, to maintain the nacelles and therefore the rotors at a sufficient height, guaranteeing a minimum ground clearance of the rotors to allow a landing in airplane mode, this ground clearance being increased and / or the diameter of the rotors being increased if the high wings are raised relative to the upper part of the fuselage.
- the fixed and high wings have an upward dihedral (positive dihedral), between the fuselage and the nacelles, which, simultaneously, makes it possible to further increase the ground clearance and / or the diameter rotors, and limits the drag penalty due to the raised position of the fixed wings above the fuselage.
- Fixed wings raised relative to the fuselage and with an upward dihedral undoubtedly improve the landing capacity with the rotors in airplane mode.
- the external wing portions comprising the external orientable command and / or control surfaces, or arranged in such external orientable surfaces, may also have a positive (upward) or zero dihedral (being substantially horizontal), but, advantageously, to at least partially compensate for any disadvantageous aerodynamic effects of the positive dihedral of the fixed wings, the external wing portions may have a negative dihedral (downwards), so that the fixed wing of the aircraft is appreciably winged.
- the characteristics relating to the fixed high wings, raised, having a dihedral upwards and possibly extended, outside the nacelles, by external portions of wing with a positive, zero or negative dihedral can be used on a convertible aircraft of the type presented above independently of the other characteristics presented above and relating to the structure, arrangement, operation and control of the external orientable command and / or control surfaces of the convertible aircraft, and Conversely. Indeed, such external orientable surfaces can be fitted to the wing tips with a fixed wing of a convertible aircraft, the fixed wings of which are not high wings, neither raised nor in dihedral.
- FIG. 1 is a partial schematic plan view of a second embodiment, in airplane mode
- FIG. 5 is a schematic sectional view of the external o ⁇ entable surface of the example in FIG. 4 and of its maneuvering and control means,
- FIG. 6 is a variant of the embodiment of FIG. 4, and
- FIG. 7 is a curve representing, as a function of the frequency, the amplification of the amplitude of the movements of the elevon with respect to the amplitude of the excitations of the control jack, in a mechanical system according to the figure 5.
- the convertible aircraft 1 of FIGS. 1 to 3 comprises a fuselage 2, of the aircraft fuselage type, with a cockpit 3 at the front and a tailplane 4 in "T" shape with fin (s) at the rear, and two fixed and high wings 5, in this example with zero deflection and constant rope (rectangular in plan), extending, in a conventional manner, laterally on each side of the fuselage 2, each fixed wing 5 supporting, at its external end according to its wingspan, on the side opposite to the fuselage 2, an articulated driving nacelle 6, fixed by its rear part 7 to the corresponding wing 5.
- the tail unit 4 may have another geometrical configuration, for example in the form of a cross, or in a "V" shape, or bi-drift, or the like. equipped with one or more daggerboards.
- Each nacelle 6 comprises a front part 8, aerodynamically profiled, substantially in the shape of a warhead, and tilting mounted, relative to the fixed rear part 7 of the nacelle 6, and therefore relative to the corresponding wing 5, around a tilting axis XX, which is transverse to the fuselage 2, and more particularly perpendicular to the longitudinal plane of symmetry passing through the longitudinal axis AA of the aircraft 1.
- the tilt axis XX is parallel to the plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis AA of the aircraft 1 and containing the straight lines passing through the aerodynamic foci of the wings 5, the tilt axis XX being slightly behind the focal lines located at a distance from the leading edge of the wings 5 which is about 25% of the value of the chord of the wings 5, towards their trailing edge.
- each nacelle 6 On the tilting front part 8 of each nacelle 6, a rotor, for example with three or four blades, and shown diagrammatically by the rotor disc 9, is mounted in rotation around its axis and also rocking around the axis XX with the part front of corresponding nacelle 8, each rotor 9 having a shaft connected, for its rotational drive, by a transmission to a turbo-engine group fixed in the fixed rear part 7 of the corresponding nacelle 6, according to an arrangement more precisely described in FR 99 03735, to which reference will be made for further details on this subject, and which is incorporated in the present description by way of reference.
- the two transmissions are connected to each other by an interconnection shaft, shown diagrammatically at 10 in FIG. 3.
- an interconnection shaft shown diagrammatically at 10 in FIG. 3.
- the shaft 10 essentially consists of two rectilinear parts, each extending between the fuselage 2 and one respectively of the nacelles 6, over the entire span of the fixed wing 5 corresponding, this shaft part 10 being substantially parallel to the plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis AA and passing through the tilt axis XX, but offset relative to this plane, for example towards the rear of the wings 5 (see figure 3), both pa straight lines of the interconnection shaft 10 being coupled to one another, on the top of the fuselage 2, and to an accessory drive housing housed in an elevation box 11 by which the fixed wings and high 5 are secured to the upper part of the fuselage 2, being raised relative to this fuselage 2.
- each transmission which has a free wheel to neutralize the differences in engine rotation speed, comprises a front transmission part or front reduction unit, which drives the rotor shaft 9 and is mounted tilting with it around the tilting axis XX, inside the tilting front part 8 of the nacelle 6, the front reduction unit remaining permanently engaged with a rear part of the non-tilting rear transmission or gear unit, permanently engaged with a power take-off at the corresponding end of the interconnection shaft 10 and with an output shaft of the corresponding turbo-engine group.
- the non-tilting rear reduction gear assembly occupies a fixed position relative to the turbo-engine unit, to the rear part 7 of the corresponding nacelle 6, to the interconnection shaft 10, and therefore to the wings 5, and is partially housed in the fixed rear part 7 of the nacelle 6 and possibly in at least one of the aerodynamically profiled connections or connecting karman between the fixed rear nacelle part 7 and the corresponding wing 5.
- the convertible aircraft 1 is thus equipped with two tilting rotors, each of which can be toggled between a helicopter configuration, in which the rotors are marked in 9 'on the front parts of the nacelle marked in 8', and in which each rotor 9 'is driven around a substantially vertical axis of rotation, for the operation of the aircraft in helicopter mode, and an airplane configuration, in which each rotor marked at 9 (in FIGS. 1 to 3) at the front of a part before the nacelle marked at 8 behaves like a propeller driven in rotation about an axis substantially aligned with the direction of flight, for the operation of the aircraft in airplane mode.
- each nacelle 6 rocks by a central rear portion between two front lateral extensions of the fixed rear part 7 of this nacelle 6, as described in FR 99 03956.
- the fixed rear part 7 For a good air supply to the engine, fixed in this fixed rear part 7, the latter has a lower air intake 12, fixed and opening towards the front under the tilting front part 8 of the nacelle 6.
- the fixed wings 5, raised at 11 on the fuselage 2 also have a positive dihedral (see FIG. 2), that is to say that each of them is raised upwards, with respect to their raised connection 11 to the fuselage 2, on the side of its end supporting the nacelle 6.
- the nacelles 6, and therefore the rotors 9, are thus raised above the ground so that sufficient ground clearance remains between the rotors 9 and the ground, even when the rotors 9 are of relatively large diameter, to allow the aircraft 1 to land with the rotors 9 in airplane configuration, in particular in the event of failure of the two engines, the rotors 9 then being in autorotation, disengaged from the engines, but the landing of the aircraft in airplane mode is also possible with rotors 9 driven by the engines or stopped.
- the positive dihedral of the wings 5 not only makes it possible to raise the rotors 9 sufficiently to make it possible to land in airplane mode, but also to use rotors 9 of a size large enough to be dimensioned in order to optimize the performance in hover, with cyclic and collective step control for good behavior in helicopter mode and in conversion from one of the two airplane and helicopter modes to the other.
- the drag penalty due to the presence of the raising box 11 allowing the raised position of the wings 5 above the fuselage 2, is limited by the use of wings 5 with a positive dihedral.
- the airfoil of the aircraft 1 comprises, substantially in the extension of each wing 5, according to its wingspan and outside the corresponding nacelle 6, it that is to say on the side opposite to the fuselage 2, an external portion of airfoil 13, at least part of which pivots about an axis of articulation YY substantially transverse to the aircraft 1, and preferably contained in a perpendicular plane to the longitudinal axis AA of the aircraft 1, that is to say in a plane parallel to the tilt axis XX of the rotors 9 with at least the front parts 8 of the nacelles 6 and the front parts of the transmissions.
- each external portion of wing 13 is a part of external wing which is entirely pivotable about the axis of articulation YY.
- Each of the two outer wing portions 13, of substantially trapezoidal plane shape (see FIG. 3), and whose straight leading and trailing edges converge towards each other laterally outwards and are connected by a small salmon 14 at the end constitutes a command and / or control surface which is orientable, and the pivoting of each around its axis of articulation YY is controlled by an actuator, such as a jack, controlled by a computer that can be integrated with the pilot control computers.
- These orientable surfaces 13 fulfill the functions of piloted fins and / or active aerodynamic flaps, situated at the ends of the wings 5, beyond the nacelles 6, and therefore constitute elevations, capable of operating in elevator as in warping .
- the axis YY articulation allows the incidence of each elevon 13 to be controlled, and its actuating cylinder (not shown) is slaved in displacement and permanently controlled by the computer to control the deflection of the elevon 13.
- the elevable 13 steerable located outside of the nacelles 6, make it possible to control the aircraft 1 in roll in airplane mode, this roll control, which requires rapid dynamics, being thus decoupled from the functions of high lift and reduction in lift, which are fulfilled by orientable control and / or control surfaces mounted along the trailing edges of the fixed wings 5, between the nacelles 6 and the fuselage 2, and which constitute ailerons and / or internal flaps 15, in reduced number, pivoting around axes of articulation Y'-Y also substantially transverse with respect to the fuselage 2, for example two fins and / or flaps 15 per wing 5 (see FIGS. 2 and 3).
- this reduced number of internal orientable surfaces 15 can be controlled by a reduced number of slow dynamic actuators, therefore simple and economical.
- the structure of the internal orientable surfaces 15 can be simplified, and their number can even be reduced to one surface 15 per wing 5, the need for a negative turn (orientation upwards) disappearing as well as that of a asymmetrical deflection between the two wings 5.
- a mechanical connection between the two orientable surfaces 15 makes it possible to simply cover the risk of embarkation in roll of the aircraft 1 linked to an asymmetrical deflection of the orientable surfaces 15, functioning simply as flaps, but which can also, more generally, function as elevators.
- the external orientable surfaces 13 are used primarily as active aerodynamic flaps controlled automatically, to make active control of the vibrations , and in particular the natural vibrations, specific to the rotors 9, generated in a rotating axis, and vibrations linked to the so-called “tail shake” and “whirl-flutter” phenomena, the latter being essentially aeroelastic instability originating from the cou- range between the rotors 9 and the wings 5 at high speed in airplane mode.
- This active control more precisely described below with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5, consists in developing, as schematically represented on the left part of FIG.
- Each external elevon 13 can be controlled in incidence around its axis of articulation YY, against specific means.
- these elastic means having moreover two functions, which are to take up the static forces of the elevon 13, so to relieve the corresponding operating cylinder, and that in dynamic the stiffness of the elastic means, coupled with the inertia of the moving parts (essentially the elevon 13 and the moving parts of its operating cylinder) created a resonant system of the second order, the resonance frequency of the moving parts being adjusted to the excitation frequency, which considerably reduces the control forces and therefore the size of the actuating cylinder.
- An active, self-piloting and self-adaptive anti-vibration system is thus produced, based on the injection of additional aerodynamic forces, introduced by the control of the elevons 13, to minimize the vibrations in all the non-pivoting parts of the aircraft 1 in particular the fuselage 2, the empennage (s) and fin (s) 4, the fixed wings 5 and the non-pivoting rear parts 7 of the nacelles 6.
- the use of the external elevations 13 in active vibration control allows therefore reducing the stiffness, and therefore the mass, of the wings 5 for a given maximum speed, and / or increasing this maximum speed of the aircraft 1.
- the external elevations 13 also make it possible, when piloted like flaps, and in the event of failure of the two engines, to reduce the rates of descent of the aircraft, in autorotation of the two rotors 9, by participating in the lift of the aircraft 1 in airplane mode, if the elevons 13 are oriented in the wind bed.
- the elevons 13 increase the aerodynamic elongation of the airfoil, which reduces the induced drag and therefore improves the performance in airplane mode when climbing, cruising and in finesse (so that the rate of descent is reduced in flight without power).
- the external elevons 13 have a slight negative dihedral (downwards), which is accentuated at the level of their salmon 14, therefore in the opposite direction to the dihedral of the wings 5, to compensate for the possible effects of this positive dihedral of the wings 5. It is also understood that the use of partially tilting nacelles 6 (with motor and rear transmission part housed in the fixed rear part 7 of the nacelle and rotor 9 tilting with the front transmission part and the front part 8 of the nacelle 6), allows a simple structural integration of the external elevations 13 on the nacelles 6.
- the elevations or external portions of airfoil 13 may have a zero dihedral (to be substantially horizontal) or also a positive dihedral, substantially in the extension of that of the wings 5, but preferably these external surfaces 13 of the airfoil are given a slight negative dihedral (see FIG. 2) giving the airfoil pr Incipale the appearance of seagull wings.
- a zero dihedral to be substantially horizontal
- a positive dihedral substantially in the extension of that of the wings 5
- these external surfaces 13 of the airfoil are given a slight negative dihedral (see FIG. 2) giving the airfoil pr Incipale the appearance of seagull wings.
- each fixed wing 5 ′ is found fixed in the high and raised position with a positive dihedral on the upper part of the fuselage 2, and in this example of plan shape in a rectangular trapezoid with a leading edge 16 with zero arrow and a trailing edge 17 with negative arrow and equipped with two internal elevons 15, and which supports at its external end a nacelle 6, at least the front part 8 of which rocks with a rotor 9.
- An external elevon 13 ' in plan shape in trapezoid rectangle whose leading and trailing edges extend substantially those respectively 16 and 17 of the wing 5 ', is pivotally mounted as a whole, outside of the nacelle 6 around its axis of articulation YY.
- the articulation axis Y ′ -Y of the internal elevons 15 is inclined on the plane transverse to the aircraft passing through the articulation axis YY of the external elevation 13 ′, while in the example of FIGS. 1 to 3, the axes of articulation Y'- Y of the internal elevations 15 and those YY of the external elevations 13 are in parallel transverse planes.
- FIG. 5 schematically represents the control of the orientation of each external elevon 13 'of FIG. 4 around its axis of articulation Y-Y.
- the steering angle of each external elevon 13 ′ is controlled by a computer 18 receiving at 19 signals from accelerometers, gyrometers and force sensors arranged in determined locations in particular of the fuselage 2, the rotors 9 and the tailplane (s) and drift (s) 4 of the aircraft.
- the computer 18 controls an excitation cylinder 20, which is a linear cylinder, controlled by displacement, the cylinder 21 of which rests on a fixed point 22 of the fixed rear part 7, for example, of the nacelle 6 nearby, or on a fixed point 22 of the wing 5 ′, while the piston and the rod 23 of the jack 20 drive a small lever 24 secured to the elevon 13 ′, in rotation about the axis of articulation YY, and against a spring 25 of static and dynamic chords, also urging the lever 24 at one end and bearing at its other end on another fixed point 26 of the structure of the neighboring nacelle 6 or of the wing 5 '.
- an excitation cylinder 20 which is a linear cylinder, controlled by displacement, the cylinder 21 of which rests on a fixed point 22 of the fixed rear part 7, for example, of the nacelle 6 nearby, or on a fixed point 22 of the wing 5 ′, while the piston and the rod 23 of the jack 20 drive a small lever 24 secured to the elevon 13
- the excitations of the rotors 9 are countered by the lift on the external elevons 13 ′ or 13 of the examples of FIGS. 1 to 4.
- the spring 25 takes up the static forces of the elevon 13 ′ so as to relieve the jack 20, and, in dynamics, the stiffness of the spring 25 coupled to the inertia of the moving assembly, comprising principally the elevon 13 'with its lever 24, the piston and the rod 23 of the jack 20 and the spring 25, created a resonant system of the second order, the resonant frequency of this moving assembly being adjusted to the excitation frequency of the jack 20, which makes it possible to reduce the control forces delivered by the jack 20, and therefore the power and size of the latter .
- the control of the actuator 20 by the vibration control computer 18 is neutralized during the actuation of the actuator 20 by the pilot controls, to control the elevon 13 or 13 ′ in elevator or warping.
- an external elevon such as 13 or 13 ′, but of substantially rectangular plan shape, with a rope of 0.56 m and a span of 0.25 m, and piloted with a steering angle amplitude of + 5 °, sufficient to act against an excitation force of 1000 N, at the maximum speed of the aircraft in airplane mode of approximately 150 m / s, the mass estimated by elevon being d 'about 2 kg.
- the external elevons 13 or 13 ' are made so that their center of gravity is in front of their center of rotation, on the axis of articulation YY , the center of rotation being itself positioned on their aerodynamic focus, to avoid moments due to aerodynamic force. This minimizes the steering efforts.
- Each external portion of the airfoil, outside the nacelles 6, may not be entirely a steerable surface, but may on the contrary, as schematically represented in FIG. 6, which represents a variant of FIG. 4, be an external portion of wing 27 of which a front part, along its leading edge, is a portion of fixed outer wing 28, at the rear of which an orientable part 29 is pivotally mounted around the axis of articulation YY, and constitutes the orientable operating and / or control surface as a fin and / or as a flap, and therefore analogous to elevon 13 or 13 'of the previous examples.
- the elevons can also introduce into the structure of the wings 5 or 5 'of the torsional moments which may be necessary in the event of the manifestation of the “whirl-flutter” phenomenon, and to counter this phenomenon.
- the elevons 13, 13 ′ and 29 are therefore self-piloted in order to attenuate in the structure of the convertible vibrations which are at least of the three aforementioned types, namely the vibrations resulting from “whirl flutter” phenomena. and tail shake and the vibrations generated by the rotors during normal operation.
- the corresponding fixed wing 5 or 5 ′ is then deformed, which can again accentuate the movement of the rotor 9 relative to its plane of rotation, and so on, so that if the stiffness of the wing 5 or 5 'is not sufficient to dampen these movements and bring the unit back into equilibrium position, the phenomenon diverges until the rupture of elements called into question on the wing 5 or 5' and / or on the corresponding rotor 9. Consequently, the movement of the wing 5 or 5 ′ is an overall movement of flexion and torsion which results in particular in a predominant vertical displacement of the wing 5 or 5 ′. This movement, and the vibrations it generates are precisely the movement and vibrations that the elevon 13, 13 'or 27 must attenuate and then cancel.
- This phenomenon of instability corresponds to a frequency of the order of approximately 4 to 6 Hz.
- these are vibrations of the rear parts 7 of the nacelles 6 and of the rear part of the fuselage 2 of a convertible aircraft whose rear parts are excited by the breath of the rotors 9, and these vibrations develop at frequencies of a few hertz and frequently close to 4 Hz.
- the computer 18 controls the jack 20 so that its excitation frequency is normally adjusted to b ⁇ which is equal to f.
- b ⁇ which is equal to f.
- the elevon 13, 13 'or 29 therefore has limited dimensions to have a low inertia, so that it is easy to move it at frequencies of the order of 20 Hz, which requires a system with high dynamics.
- an elevon of rectangular plan shape for a convertible aircraft of which each of the two rotors 9 has a diameter of approximately 9 to 10 m, with a distance of 12 to 15 m between the axes of the two rotors 9, is an elevon made of carbon fibers and with a mass of 4 kg having a planar area of 0.25 m 2 for example, a rope of 0.5 m and a wingspan of 0, 5 m, this elevon being wedged with an average incidence of 5 °.
- this system has the advantage that there is a dynamic amplification so that the piloting of the elevon 13 ' can be done with very low control forces on the jack 20, the moving assembly comprising the elevon 13 'and its lever 24, the piston and the rod 23 of the jack 20 and the spring 25, already providing by itself- even, when it operates in a passive mechanical system, a significant amplification, shown diagrammatically by the bell-shaped curve of FIG. 7, which represents the evolution, as a function of the frequency f, of the ratio e / dO of the amplitude movements at the elevon 13 'on the amplitude of the excitations at the jack 20.
- This amplification ratio e / dO is maximum for the resonance frequency of the moving assembly (13' -24-23 -25) of Figure 5, the construction of which is such that this specific frequency is granted on the at frequency b ⁇ . Maximum efficiency is thus obtained for this frequency b ⁇ .
- This amplification ratio which is of the order of 4 for example at the top of the curve of FIG. 7, is less, but nevertheless always greater than 1, for the frequency fts, of the order of 4 Hz, at which occurs the phenomenon of "tail shake" as well as for the frequency fWF, comprised substantially between 4 to 6 Hz and for example of the order of 5 Hz, with which the phenomenon of "whirl flutter" is manifested.
- the computer 18 temporarily controls the frequency d excitation of the jack 20 so that this frequency is no longer adjusted to the normal frequency computer at b ⁇ , but on a frequency of approximately 4 Hz to approximately 6 Hz, in the event of a "whirl flutter", or on a frequency of the order of 4 Hz in the event of a "tail shake", the computer 18 then again adjusting the excitation frequency of the actuator 20 to the frequency b ⁇ as soon as the “whirl flutter” or “tail shake” phenomenon has been sufficiently attenuated, or even eliminated, which the computer 18 can determine according to the information received in 19 from on-board sensors.
- the computer 18 can adjust the excitation frequency of the jack 20 to adapt it at the new frequency b ⁇ thus obtained.
- the computer 18 thus allows adaptation to the variations, generally of limited amplitude, of the frequency of rotation of the rotors 9.
- the elevations 13, 13 ′, 29 are thus controlled at a frequency appreciably adjusted to those of the vibrational phenomena to be attenuated, or even eliminated, by the computer 18 receiving signals 19, identifying the vibrational regimes, from the sensors mounted in different points of the convertible and sensitive to the excitation forces applied in particular to the fuselage 2 from the two 9-elevon rotor assemblies 13, 13 ′ or 29 which are subjected to the aforementioned various aeroelastic and vibratory excitations.
- the force, accelerometric and gyrometric sensors informing the computer 18 can be placed at any point on the convertible aircraft.
- the two elevations 13, 13 ′ or 29 are controlled together by the same computer 18, until a configuration which minimizes the measured vibration level is obtained.
- the essential excitations come from the rotors 9, the latter being themselves at the end of the fixed wings 5 or 5 ′, so that these essential excitations are all the easier to counter as the results of the por- tance of the elevons 13, 13 'or 29 are close to the excitation forces (therefore no moment resulting on the wings 5 or 5'),
- the arrangement of the elevons 13, 13 ′ or 29 outside the nacelles 6 makes it possible to avoid unfavorable interactions on the wings 5 or 5 ′ themselves or with the control flaps 15 of these wings, while such interactions, in particular vortex interference, would be caused on the flaps 15 by an elevon piloted at high frequency and placed inside the nacelles 6 (between the nacelles 6 and the fuselage 2),
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