Dynamic Characteristic of an Artificial Wing Mimicking a Beetle Hind Wing

Author(s):  
Ngoc San Ha ◽  
Nam Seo Goo ◽  
Tailie Jin ◽  
Quoc Viet Nguyen ◽  
Hoon Cheol Park

Biomimetics is one of the most important paradigms as researchers seek to invent better engineering designs over human history. However, the observation of insect flight is a relatively recent work. Several researchers have tried to address the aerodynamic performance of flapping creatures and other natural properties of insects, although there are still many unsolved questions. In this study, we have attempted to investigate the structural dynamic characteristic of an artificial wing that mimicked the wing shape and main venation structure of a beetle hind wing using a non contact measurement method. The structural dynamic characteristic of the artificial wing was measured and compared to the real beetle hind wing by determining the natural frequencies and damping factor. The artificial wing was glued with the cyanoacrylate adhesive at the wing base onto the acrylic stand which was attached to the base of a shaker. The shaker produces the translation motion in the lateral direction of the wing plane. A non-contact laser sensor was used to measure the displacement history of the painted spots on the hind wing. A Bru¨el & Kjær FFT analyzer was adopted to calculate the frequency response functions where the natural frequencies of the wing structure can be extracted. The fundamental natural frequency of artificial wing is 51.3 Hz while the natural frequency of the beetle hind wing is 48.8 Hz. In addition, the wing structures were lightly damped with damping factor around 3.1% that is close to the one of beetle hind wing. We found that, in terms of the wing elasticity, the plastic wing frame of artificial wing was suitable for beetle-like flight.

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robertus Heru Trihajanto ◽  
Sugiarmadji HPS

The TUBSAT-LAPAN micro satellite is planned to be launched using PSLV rocket. The design constraints of the mechanical system of the satellite are able to accomodate structural requirment for PSLV, which are first resonance frequency in the rocket longitudinal axis 90 Hz and first resonance frequency in the lateral axis 45 Hz. Therefore, the structural dynamic characteristic data of the satellite is important to be evaluated, such as natural frequency and mode shapes of the satellite structures, The normal modes analysis made is done usingh Finite Element Methods commercial software NASTRAN. To simplify the FEM modeling the satellite components inside the compartmens is replaced by a dummy load simulating their contribution to satellite mass, centerof gravity and inertia, which was made by the same material as the satellite's structure, i.e. Al-Alloy 2024T351. Meanwhile, the FEM modeling for both the UHF antena used the Stainless Steel materials as the real antena. The analysis results show that the lowest local natural frequency of the satellite occurs on the UHF antena. The first natural frequency of the antena structures in lateral direction is 52,29 Hz. The first natural frequency of the satellite in lateral direction 151.47 Hz completing the satellite integration, vibration test was done to the satellite. The test shows that the first global frequency is 72-75 Hz in the lateral direction and 148 Hz in longitudinal direction. Structural dynamic characteristic of TUBSAT_LAPAN micro satellite in free flying condition are also analyzed using no-constraint condition to check the safe separation clearance scenario. The results show that the first natural frequencies for satellite structures (combination) become very small, less than 0.00032 Hz. But, the lowest of the first natural frequency for UHF antena structures is almost constant, 52.30 Hz in lateral direction.


2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 537-550
Author(s):  
T. Uhl ◽  
W. Lisowski

One of the important challenges present nowadays in the automotive industry is minimizing of a car components design time. Traditional manufacturing of a prototype is usually a time and a cost consuming process. Alternatively, rapid prototyping techniques can be used in such a case. In the reported research a brake caliper was investigated, since it is an example of an element, which should have very strictly defined structural dynamic properties. As a technique of rapid prototyping of the considered caliper the 3D printing of a mould was selected. A process of the caliper casting with the use of the "prototype" mould is different than the one with the use of the metal form. Thus it is very likely that the both considered types of the caliper would possess different properties from the point of view of structural dynamics.Structural dynamic properties can be analyzed both numerically and experimentally. Simulation of the caliper FE model with uncertain parameters was used to analyze influence of various caliper parameters on its natural frequency values. Modal testing of the caliper was performed with the aim of investigation of applicability of Experimental Modal Analysis for determination of variability of natural frequencies resulting from the manufacturing process. In the course of this research, the natural frequencies of the prototype caliper and the standard caliper were compared.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 121-131
Author(s):  
Kei-Ichi Okuyama ◽  
Shigeru Hibino ◽  
Misuzu Matsuoka ◽  
Sidi A. Bendoukha ◽  
Aleksander Lidtke

Micro satellites must survive severe mechanical conditions during their launch phase. One design requirement for rockets is the stiffness requirement, i.e. the natural frequencies requirement. In the early stages of satellite development, presumption of the natural frequency of a satellite may be difficult. The material used for the structure of many micro satellites is an aluminum alloy. The structure subsystem occupies a large portion of the satellite mass, and the elastic modulus of this aluminum alloy is larger than that of other subsystems. Therefore, the mechanical property of the aluminum alloy cannot be used to represent the mechanical property of the whole satellite.  The density of an actual satellite differs from the density of the aluminum alloy.  Therefore, when estimating the minimum natural frequency, the size and the elastic modules of an actual satellite structure must be used. When using an actual satellite structure, the estimated minimum natural frequencies of the lateral direction and the longitudinal direction during the ascent phase are in agreement with the measured values acquired by the vibration tests. In order to shorten a process of satellite development, this paper describes a practical method for estimating the natural frequency of a cube-shaped micro satellite This paper is a modified version of the previous paper [1] using new measurement results.


Author(s):  
Kei-ichi OKUYAMA ◽  
Shigeru HIBINO ◽  
Misuzu MATSUOKA ◽  
Aleksander LIDTKE

Micro satellites must survive severe mechanical conditions during their launch phase. One design requirement for rockets is the stiffness requirement, i.e. the natural frequencies requirement. In the early stages of satellite development, presumption of the natural frequency of a satellite may be difficult. The material used for the structure of many micro satellites is an aluminum alloy. The structure subsystem occupies a large portion of the satellite mass, and the elastic modulus of this aluminum alloy is larger than that of other subsystems. Therefore, the mechanical property of the aluminum alloy cannot be used to represent the mechanical property of the whole satellite.  The density of an actual satellite differs from the density of the aluminum alloy.  Therefore, when estimating the minimum natural frequency, the size and the elastic modules of an actual satellite structure must be used.  When using an actual satellite structure, the estimated minimum natural frequencies of the lateral direction and the longitudinal direction during the ascent phase are in agreement with the measured values acquired by the vibration tests. In order to shorten a process of satellite development, this paper describes a practical method for estimating the natural frequency of a micro satellite.


2014 ◽  
Vol 612 ◽  
pp. 23-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shreedhar Kolekar

Vibrations are unwanted in most of the day today usage especially in mechanical machines, civil structures, aerospace industries and automotive parts. It is usually to get the rid of these vibrations by using magneto rheological fluids. A magneto rheological fluid provides viscous damping which gets added up when magnetic field is applied. The damping properties of fluid get multiplied and natural frequency of the body under observation also changes, using this technique the three layered MR fluid sandwich beam was fabricated and tested it for undamped and damped conditions. The controllability of variations in the various dynamic parameters like natural frequencies, vibration amplitudes and damping factors was observed. Keywords: Magnetorheological fluid, MRFluid sandwich Beam, Natural frequency, Damping factor, Damping coefficient.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (14) ◽  
pp. 4705
Author(s):  
Julian Lich ◽  
Tino Wollmann ◽  
Angelos Filippatos ◽  
Maik Gude ◽  
Juergen Czarske ◽  
...  

Due to their lightweight properties, fiber-reinforced composites are well suited for large and fast rotating structures, such as fan blades in turbomachines. To investigate rotor safety and performance, in situ measurements of the structural dynamic behaviour must be performed during rotating conditions. An approach to measuring spatially resolved vibration responses of a rotating structure with a non-contact, non-rotating sensor is investigated here. The resulting spectra can be assigned to specific locations on the structure and have similar properties to the spectra measured with co-rotating sensors, such as strain gauges. The sampling frequency is increased by performing consecutive measurements with a constant excitation function and varying time delays. The method allows for a paradigm shift to unambiguous identification of natural frequencies and mode shapes with arbitrary rotor shapes and excitation functions without the need for co-rotating sensors. Deflection measurements on a glass fiber-reinforced polymer disk were performed with a diffraction grating-based sensor system at 40 measurement points with an uncertainty below 15 μrad and a commercial triangulation sensor at 200 measurement points at surface speeds up to 300 m/s. A rotation-induced increase of two natural frequencies was measured, and their mode shapes were derived at the corresponding rotational speeds. A strain gauge was used for validation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 216-225
Author(s):  
Buntheng Chhorn ◽  
WooYoung Jung

AbstractRecently, basalt fiber reinforced polymer (BFRP) is acknowledged as an outstanding material for the strengthening of existing concrete structure, especially it was being used in marine vehicles, aerospace, automotive and nuclear engineering. Most of the structures were subjected to severe dynamic loading during their service life that may induce vibration of the structures. However, free vibration studied on the basalt laminates composite plates with elliptical cut-out and correlation of natural frequency with buckling load has been very limited. Therefore, effects of the elliptical hole on the natural frequency of basalt/epoxy composite plates was performed in this study. Effects of stacking sequence (θ), elliptical hole inclination (ϕ), hole geometric ratio (a/b) and position of the elliptical hole were considered. The numerical modeling of free vibration analysis was based on the mechanical properties of BFRP obtained from the experiment. The natural frequencies as well as mode shapes of basalt laminates composite plates were numerically determined using the commercial program software (ABAQUS). Then, the determination of correlation of natural frequencies with buckling load was carried out. Results showed that elliptical hole inclination and fiber orientation angle induced the inverse proportion between natural frequency and buckling load.


Electronics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Long Zhao ◽  
Xinbo Huang ◽  
Ye Zhang ◽  
Yi Tian ◽  
Yu Zhao

In this paper, we present a vibration-based transmission tower structural health monitoring system consisting of two parts that identifies structural changes in towers. An accelerometer group realizes vibration response acquisition at different positions and reduces the risk of data loss by data compression technology. A solar cell provides the power supply. An analyser receives the data from the acceleration sensor group and calculates the transmission tower natural frequencies, and the change in the structure is determined based on natural frequencies. Then, the data are sent to the monitoring center. Furthermore, analysis of the vibration signal and the calculation method of natural frequencies are proposed. The response and natural frequencies of vibration at different wind speeds are analysed by time-domain signal, power spectral density (PSD), root mean square (RMS) and short-time Fouier transform (STFT). The natural frequency identification of the overall structure by the stochastic subspace identification (SSI) method reveals that the number of natural frequencies that can be calculated at different wind speeds is different, but the 2nd, 3rd and 4th natural frequencies can be excited. Finally, the system was tested on a 110 kV experimental transmission line. After 18 h of experimentation, the natural frequency of the overall structure of the transmission tower was determined before and after the tower leg was lifted. The results show that before and after the tower leg is lifted, the natural frequencies of each order exhibit obvious changes, and the differences in the average values can be used as the basis for judging the structural changes of the tower.


2011 ◽  
Vol 675-677 ◽  
pp. 477-480
Author(s):  
Dong Wei Shu

In this work analytical solutions are developed to study the free vibration of composite beams under axial loading. The beam with a single delamination is modeled as four interconnected Euler-Bernoulli beams using the delamination as their boundary. The continuity and the equilibrium conditions are satisfied between the adjoining beams. The studies show that the sizes and the locations of the delaminations significantly influence the natural frequencies and mode shapes of the beam. A monotonic relation between the natural frequency and the axial load is predicted.


Author(s):  
Radka JÍROVÁ ◽  
Lubomír PEŠÍK

Vibroisolation systems of base desks for machine and testing facilities usually cannot effect efficient changing of their own frequencies according to operating conditions. Especially in the case of the automotive industry, the possibility of changing natural frequencies is very desirable. During varying operating conditions, the vibroisolation system needs to be regulated easily and quickly regarding the minimisation of dynamical forces transmitted to the ground and to ensure the stability of the testing process. This paper describes one of the options of tuning the base desk at a relatively short time and by sufficient change of own frequencies, which decides the dynamical behaviour of the whole system.


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