Active Control of Booster Elasticity

Item

Title
Active Control of Booster Elasticity
Date
1965
Index Abstract
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Photo Quality
Not Needed
Report Number
AFFDL TR 64-189
Creator
Swaim, Robert L.
Corporate Author
Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory
Laboratory
Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory
Extent
84
NTRL Accession Number
AD617314
Identifier
AD0617314
Access Rights
Notice(s)
Distribution Classification
1
Contract
Laboratory Research - No Contract
DoD Project
8219
DoD Task
821901
DTIC Record Exists
No
Distribution Change Authority Correspondence
None
Abstract
An investigation was made of the problem of providing an automatic control system for a large booster subject to severe mode interaction. This interaction is defined as a strong aerodynamic coupling between the rigid-body motion and one or more elastic modes of the vehicle and can appear as a flutter phenomenon between rigid and elastic degrees of freedom as opposed to 'classical' flutter between two or more elastic degrees of freedom. For the booster considered, the interaction resulted in a rigid-body mode static divergence for an aerodynamically, statically stable, rigid configuration in the uncontrolled or forward-loop-only system. It was shown that preliminary control system design must include the significant elastic modes when mode interaction is present. A rigid-body-only synthesis will not yield 'ball-park' values for the control element gains. The investigation revealed that the active control philosophy of using auxiliary control inputs to increase the frequencies of the elastic modes sufficient to reduce the mode of interaction in the forward-loop is a false notion. It is the free-free bending modes which interact with the rigid-body motion, and input forces cannot alter their mode shapes and frequencies. They can be altered only by mass and structural stiffness changes to the basic vehicle. The input forces result in changes to elastic mode coupled frequencies and damping ratios which do not affect the mode interaction phenomenon as defined in this report.
Report Availability
Full text available
Date Issued
1965-04
Provenance
Lockheed Martin Missiles & Fire Control
Type
report
Format
1 online resource
Media
AFFDLTR64-189.pdf