Suppression of Transmitted Harmonic Rotor Loads by Blade Pitch Control

Author: Daughaday H.  

Publisher: AHS International

ISSN: 2161-6027

Source: Journal of the American Helicopter Society, Vol.13, Iss.2, 1968-04, pp. : 65-82

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Abstract

A study is made of the possibility of using higher harmonic pitch angle inputs to suppress the transmission of oscillatory vertical forces from a helicopter rotor to its driving shaft. The aerodynamic loads that are the source of the objectionable forces are computed using a realistic model which represents the rotor blades by bound vorticity distributions and the wake by a mesh of segmented vortex filaments.