23rd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 8-13 September, 2002, Toronto, Canada
Paper ICAS 2002-3.3.2

MODELING OF FULL-SCALE AIRCRAFT STRUCTURAL TESTS

R. L. Hewitt
IAR/NRC, Canada

Keywords: aircraft, control, fatigue, full-scale testing, modeling, servo-hydraulic, simulation

Full-scale aircraft structural fatigue tests are extremely complex from a control systems viewpoint. A linear state space model of a single channel structural test was previously developed and experimentally verified as an aid to better understand these tests. This paper presents an expansion of the model to a multi-channel configuration.

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