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High Fidelity Helicopter Lag Damper Model for Comprehensive Rotor Analysis

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N68335-11-C-0419
Agency Tracking Number: N11A-010-0367
Amount: $79,999.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: STTR
Solicitation Topic Code: N11A-T010
Solicitation Number: 2011.A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2011
Award Year: 2011
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2011-08-15
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
57 MARYANNE DRIVE
MONROE, CT -
United States
DUNS: 180516577
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: Yes
Principal Investigator
 Serkan Ozbay
 Research Engineer
 (203) 874-3100
 sozbay@AboutMTC.com
Business Contact
 Yogesh Mehrotra
Title: Vice President
Phone: (203) 874-3100
Email: YMehrotra@AboutMTC.com
Research Institution
 Georgia Institute of Technology
 Dewey Hodges
 
270 Ferst Drive
Atlanta, GA 30332-0150
United States

 (404) 894-8201
 Nonprofit College or University
Abstract

Helicopters with articulated rotor blades are subject to the well-known ground resonance where the rotor lag mode interacts, in an unstable fashion, with fuselage roll. To eliminate this ground resonance, both lag dampers and fuselage roll dampers are required. The Sikorsky UH-60 helicopter platform, which comprises the vast majority of utility rotorcraft used by the US Army and the Navy, relies upon a set of four hydraulic dampers for safe operation. The current comprehensive rotorcraft analysis tools however lack accurate modeling capabilities to predict the force, displacement, and dissipative nature of lag dampers. The methodologies used in these current comprehensive tools usually oversimplify the complexity of the dampers and incorporate significant assumptions about the operational environments and system parameters. To address the NAVAIR need for designing fluidic lag dampers, Materials Technologies Corporation (MTC) and its team members, Georgia Tech and Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, propose creating a robust fully nonlinear modeling approach that inherently employs first principles of mechanics. Once developed, our tool will be coupled with a comprehensive rotorcraft simulation code enabling a quick, versatile and accurate construction of the fluid based (hydraulic and fluid-elastomeric) dampers for rotorcraft analysis.

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