Aerodynamic optimization of an adaptive flap for next-generation green aircraft

LIN, Tianlong; PECORA, Rosario; CILIBERTI, Danilo; XIA, Wei; HU, Shuling

doi:10.1016/j.cja.2023.10.010

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“…This reference architecture is currently being used in most commercial aircraft. New promising flap geometries are being explored [8] in order to achieve fuel burn reductions. New actuators are bringing new possible concepts that might also bring promising results.…”

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Performance and Reliability Evaluation of Innovative High-Lift Devices for Aircraft Using Electromechanical Actuators

Cabaleiro de la Hoz,

Fioriti,

Boggero

2024

Aerospace

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In the last decades, electromechanical actuators started to be introduced in transport aircraft for primary and secondary flight control surfaces. Some innovative architectures have been proposed in the literature to use these actuators for high-lift devices (flaps and slats). The state-of-the-art architecture is built with a central mechanical shaft powered by a power distribution unit connected to ballscrew actuators that actuate the flap and slat surfaces. New innovative concepts have the potential to improve the state-of-the-art architectures. However, there is a lack of quantitative results for such innovative architectures. A new methodology is proposed to preliminarily estimate performance and reliability aspects of conventional and innovative architectures. This allows quantitative comparisons to finally be obtained. The methodology is applied to a new architecture that uses electromechanical actuators for flaps and slats, providing results in terms of performance and reliability and comparing them to the current state-of-the-art high-lift devices. Results show that the new architecture is lighter than the reference one and can be more reliable. This is achieved thanks to the removal of the mechanical links among components, which allows each control surface to be deployed independently from the others. This highly increases the operational reliability of the system. Two cases are analyzed, with and without actuator jamming. This provides more realistic results since this failure mode is currently the main reason why electromechanical actuators are not being used for more applications. The innovative architecture outperforms the conventional one in the case where the electromechanical actuators are not affected by the jamming failure mode.

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