Antônio B. Guimarães Neto, Flávio J. Silvestre, Flávio L. C. Ribeiro, Flávio L. S. Bussamra, Roberto G. A. da Silva, Carlos E. S. Cesnik

DOI Number: N/A

Conference number: IFASD-2017-080

A simple and self-contained methodology to assess the validity of the assumption of small deformations in linear structural-dynamic models was recently proposed. The advantages of the methodology lie in the fact that it does not depend on the availability of higher-fidelity, nonlinear models: it is rather based on the selection of two different structural nodes where the structural motion is to be one at a time completely constrained, typically, a node near the center of mass and another in the region of maximum structural displacements with respect to mean axes. If the two displacement vectors calculated in each case can be transformed between themselves with linear rigid-body modes of the structure, then it is still in the regime of small deformations. In the present paper, in order to demonstrate the value of this methodology, it is applied to the X-HALE aircraft in its four-, sixand eight-meter-span configurations, and the results obtained with the assumption of small deformations are compared with a higher-fidelity model that comprises large structural deformations.

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