PHASE 3

ROTATING FLAPPING BEAM UNDER BASE

EXCITATION

14/04/2018
 CONTENTS
INDEX SLIDE NUMBER

INTRODUCTION 5

FLAPPING BEAM 6

METHODOLOGY 7-8

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY 9

PROJECT MODEL 10

RESULTS 11-13

CONCLUSION 14
 Acknowledgement

• Conquering the third dimension has always been the epitome of inventions
such as rotorcrafts, helicopters, etc... And understanding its rotor system
which is the heart of such rotorcrafts have been in the radar for quite some
time to reduce the dangers of lift, and damage on rotor.
• Last but not the least we would like to thank our respective parents and
friends for their help and guidance

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 INTRODUCTION
• In the continuous system of beam under study
is observed at resonance having known the
natural frequencies of the model using ANSYS
Workbench18.1
• Resonance is a phenomenon in which an
external force drives another system to
oscillate with greater amplitude at specific
frequency
 FLAPPING BEAM
• The next analysis carried out by us after
resonance is flapping, it is one of the dynamic
characteristics of the beam under study
subjected to base excitation

Fig 1:flapping
 METHODOLOGY
Modelling on CATIA
of beam/rotor system

Analytical results with ANSYS apdl

for a simple cantilever beam
including modal,harmonic
and transient response for different
loading conditions .

Analytical results with ANSYS workbench

for the rotor/beam system including
modal and frequency response under 0-1000 Hz

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 Contd…

• To draw the correlation among derivative, analytical

and experimental results for validation.

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 Experimental study

• The following dimensions were recorded by us at the vibrations lab.

• Length of the beam= 5.1 Cms.
• Diameter of the beam 1Cm.
• Distance of one beam from the hub of the system=1.7 Cms.
• Material of the beam=Brass
• Type of joint: pinned joint
• Frequency range=0-1000Hz
• Rotational velocity=0-1200 RPM
• These dimensions were use by us to complete the structural model using
CATIA with some other additional details such as the H section

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Photograph of the project model taken at Acoustics and
Vibrations Lab at Dept. Of Aerospace , IISc , Blr-12

Fig 2:Top view

Fig 3: front view

RESULTS

Fig 4: modal analysis

 AT RESONANCE

Fig 5: tip amplitude response at resonance

 FLAPPING

Fig 6: harmonic response at flapping

 CONCLUSION

• The natural frequencies obtained from modal analysis using ANSYS

workbench helped to determine the resonant frequency at which the beam
has highest amplitude by which we can determine what is the safety
frequency limit for the model.
• The frequency response curve and harmonic studies shows that flapping
occurs with almost periodically increasing and decreasing amplitudes for a
frequency range of 0-800 Hz which completes the study of one of the
dynamic characteristics of the model which causes dynamic instability to
the beam(model).