Improved Design and Dynamic Simulation of High Aspect Ratio Folding Wings

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Folding wings of UAV may lead to high bending and torsion deformation under flight load. In order to solve the problem, an improved folding wing mechanism is proposed, which makes support mechanism stiffness become enough big. By means of CATIA and ADAMS, a virtual prototype is set up, which can simulate dynamics of the deployment mechanism. Therefore the relationship among deployment time and friction coefficient and tension is arrived. Meanwhile finite element analysis is made on folding wing with support structure and without support structure by MSC.Nastran. And the results show that the stiffness and strength change obviously. Simulation results have a certain guiding significance for practical engineering application.

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December 2012

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