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Volume 6, 2013
Progress in Flight Dynamics, Guidance, Navigation, Control, Fault Detection, and Avionics
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| Page(s) | 707 - 728 | |
| Section | Flexible aircraft control | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eucass/201306707 | |
| Published online | 02 December 2013 | |
L∞-Optimal feedforward gust load alleviation design for a large blended wing body airliner
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EADS Innovation Works Munich 81663, Germany
2
Czech Technical University in Prague Prague 16627, Czech Republic
3
Technische Universität München Garching 85747, Germany
The potential advantages of Blended Wing Body (BWB) aircraft in terms of fuel efficiency are opposed by technical challenges such as the alleviation of gust loads. Due to the low wing, loading gusts, generally, have a more severe impact on BWB aircraft than on conventional aircraft. This paper presents the design and optimization of a Gust Load Alleviation System (GLAS) for a large BWB airliner. Numerical simulations are performed with an aeroelastic model of the aircraft including GLAS in order to compute time series of modal displacements for deriving equivalent static load cases which are used for the resizing of the aircraft structure.
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