Aircraft Fuel Tank CATIA Model Pretreatment Method for Quality Property Calculation

Abstract:

According to the requirement of aircraft fuel quality property calculation, this paper studied pretreatment methods for tank CATIA model. Firstly, extract outside surfaces of wing skins, start and end wing ribs, front and back spars and then joint them to create a complete closed surface by additional repairing surfaces gap. Secondly, inside the closed surface, bool operation is utlized to remove actual bodies of fuel tank structures and internal accessories from the model of fuel tank. Direct accurate calculation of fuel quality property in CATIA environment is then achieved. Finally,simulation is carried out with an real aircraft fuel tank, comparison between simulation results and test data shows that relative error of pretreated fuel tank volume model is less than 1%, which satisfies engineering requirements.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 713-715)
• Pages: 573-576
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.713-715.573
• Online since: January 2015
• Authors: Yong Qin Chen, San Mai Su, Jin Ping Chen, Wei Chang
• Keywords: Aircraft Fuel Tank, CATIA Model, Pretreatment, Quality Property Calculation

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