27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-5.10.3

GUST LOAD ALLEVIATION ON A LARGE BLENDED WING BODY AIRLINER

A. Wildschek, F. Stroscher*, T. Klimmek**, Z. Šika***, T. Vampola***, M. Valášek***, D. Gangsaas****, N. Aversa*****, A. Berard*****
EADS Innovation Works, Germany; *TU Munich, Germany; **DLR, ***Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; ***Czech Technical Univ. in Prague, Czech Republic; ****DG Aviation, USA; *****AIRBUS, France

Keywords: blended wing body airliner, gust load alleviation, gust load analysis

Gust loads are generally more critical for BWB aircraft than for conventional wing tube aircraft. In this paper a gust load alleviation system is designed for a large 450 passenger BWB airliner. Numeric simulations are performed in order to allow for structural weight reduction.

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