Design, fabrication, and testing of SMA-enabled adaptive chevrons for jet noise reduction

Travis L. Turner; Ralph D. Buehrle; Roberto J. Cano; Gary A. Fleming

doi:10.1117/12.540013

26 July 2004 Design, fabrication, and testing of SMA-enabled adaptive chevrons for jet noise reduction

Travis L. Turner, Ralph D. Buehrle, Roberto J. Cano, Gary A. Fleming

Proceedings Volume 5390, Smart Structures and Materials 2004: Smart Structures and Integrated Systems; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.540013
Event: Smart Structures and Materials, 2004, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

This study presents the status and results from an effort to design, fabricate, and test an adaptive jet engine chevron concept based upon embedding shape memory alloy (SMA) actuators in a composite laminate, termed a SMA hybrid composite (SMAHC). The approach for fabricating the adaptive SMAHC chevrons involves embedding prestrained Nitinol actuators on one side of the mid-plane of the composite laminate such that thermal excitation generates a thermal moment and deflects the structure. A glass-epoxy pre-preg/Nitinol ribbon material system and a vacuum hot press consolidation approach are employed. A versatile test system for control and measurement of the chevron deflection performance is described. Projection moire interferometry (PMI) is used for global deformation measurement and infrared (IR) thermography is used for 2-D temperature measurement and feedback control. A recently commercialized constitutive model for SMA and SMAHC materials is used in the finite element code ABAQUS to perform nonlinear static analysis of the chevron prototypes. Excellent agreement is achieved between the predicted and measured chevron deflection performance, thereby validating the design tool. Although the performance results presented in this paper fall short of the requirement, the concept is proven and an approach for achieving the performance objectives is evident.

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Travis L. Turner, Ralph D. Buehrle, Roberto J. Cano, and Gary A. Fleming "Design, fabrication, and testing of SMA-enabled adaptive chevrons for jet noise reduction", Proc. SPIE 5390, Smart Structures and Materials 2004: Smart Structures and Integrated Systems, (26 July 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.540013

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