Abstract
The local heat source of a civil aircraft affects the temperature of the lower panel structure of the center wing. In this paper, a local heat source is arranged on the lower panel structure of the center wing. The strain of the center wing lower panel skin under different temperature gradients under local thermal loads and the corresponding temperature gradients around the heat source were investigated. The natural mesh model and the fine finite element model were used to analyze the thermal load of the center wing lower panel. The temperature on the node was applied according to the real temperature in the test, and the analysis results were compared with the test values. After comparative analysis, the strain value of the natural mesh model has a high degree of fit with the test value, and the analysis results of the natural mesh model can be used to analyze the thermal stress intensity of the center wing lower panel.
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1 General
The ambient temperature envelope of civil aircraft is large, and the influence of thermal stress on its static strength and fatigue strength cannot be ignored [1, 2]. Usually the calculation of the skin surface temperature field often only considers the external pneumatic environment, which is not consistent with the actual skin overall thermal environment. Therefore, it is necessary to establish a reasonable thermal analysis model and calculation method to analyze the skin temperature field and influencing factors [3,4,5].
2 Test Data
The lower panel of the center wing of a civil aircraft is formed by connecting the skin of 2024HDT-T351 and the stringer of 2026-T3511 through fasteners, and 15 stringers are arranged in total (the number from the front spar to the rear spar is stringer 1 to stringer 15 respectively). The heading length is 2890 mm, the span width is 3664 mm.
This test mainly investigates the strain of the center wing lower panel skin under different temperature gradients under local thermal load. The investigation area is 1000 mm × 560 mm, as shown in Fig. 1. The circle in the inspection area is a schematic diagram of the location of the heat source (heat lamp used in the test).
Distributed optical fiber sensors are arranged in the main inspection area of the center wing lower panel for temperature field and strain field reconstruction, and fiber grating sensors (FBG) are arranged on the central skin of the main inspection area for point-type high-frequency real-time measurement, as shown in Fig. 2. The monitored strains are all wing spanwise.
In the test, a heat lamp was used to irradiate and load, as shown in Fig. 3. During the test, a total of 6 heat lamps were used and three heating-cooling cycles were performed. The position of the heat lamp is the same in the first two cycles, and the position of the heat lamp is slightly adjusted in the third cycle, so that the temperature of the fiber grating sensor (FBG) at the center skin of the monitoring area increases.
The temperature loading and unloading process curve of the three cycles is shown in Fig. 4, and the thermal strain change curve of the inner and outer surfaces is shown in Fig. 5.
As can be seen from Figs. 4 and 5, the outer surface temperature of the skin in the first two cycles is up to about 72 °C. In the third cycle, the position of the heat lamp is adjusted so that the heat lamp directly hits the central area of the test, that is, the position of the FBG sensor, so The maximum temperature reaches about 80 °C, while the maximum temperature of the inner skin is about 60 °C. Correspondingly, the maximum thermal strain of the outer skin in the first two cycles is about 544 με, the maximum thermal strain of the inner skin is about 444 με, the maximum thermal strain of the outer skin in the third cycle is about 552 με, and the maximum thermal strain of the inner skin is about 452 με.
According to the temperature-strain change data of the inner and outer surfaces of the three cycles, the corresponding graphs are drawn as shown in Figs. 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10.
It can be seen from Figs. 6, 7, and 8 that in all three cycles, the inner surface temperature-strain curve has a good linearity, while the outer surface is a typical hysteresis loop. The reason for the analysis may be that the outer surface is directly irradiated by a heat lamp, which is more sensitive to temperature, causing the temperature to rise and fall faster than the structural strain change rate.
As can be seen from Figs. 9 and 10, the three cycle cooling processes on the outer surface have good linearity and repeatability, and the heating process is different due to the different position of the heat lamp; except for the first cycle heating process, the rest of the heating and cooling processes on the inner surface have good linearity and repeatability.
The temperature distribution results of the three cycles of the distributed optical fiber sensor are shown in Figs. 11, 12, and 13.
The thermal strain distribution results of the three cycle temperatures of the distributed optical fiber sensor are shown in Figs. 14, 15, and 16.
3 Finite element analysis
A natural mesh model and a fine finite element model are used to analyze the thermal load of the center wing lower panel. The temperature on the node is applied according to the real temperature in the test. Among them, the temperature applied at the nodes in the natural mesh model (GFEM0, GFEM1) is taken from the average value of the temperature of the fiber measuring point at the adjacent position of the node in the test, as shown in Fig. 17; the fine model (DFEM0) The temperature applied at the node is basically consistent with the temperature of the fiber measuring point at the corresponding position of the node in the test, as shown in Fig. 18.
As shown in Figs. 19 and 20, the strain value of the natural mesh model (GFEM0) has a high degree of fit with the test value.
4 Conclusions
After comparative analysis, the strain value of the natural mesh model (GFEM0) has a high degree of fit with the test value, and the analysis results of the natural mesh model can be used to analyze the thermal stress intensity of the center wing lower panel.
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Bo, X. (2024). Experimental Study on the Impact of Thermal Stress on Aircraft Structural Performance. In: Halgamuge, S.K., Zhang, H., Zhao, D., Bian, Y. (eds) The 8th International Conference on Advances in Construction Machinery and Vehicle Engineering. ICACMVE 2023. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1876-4_101
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