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System analysis and performance benefits of an optimized rotorcraft propulsion system
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Bruckner, Robert J. |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Description | The propulsion system of rotorcraft vehicles is the most critical system to the vehicle in terms of safety and performance. The propulsion system must provide both vertical lift and forward flight propulsion during the entire mission. Whereas propulsion is a critical element for all flight vehicles, it is particularly critical for rotorcraft due to their limited safe, un-powered landing capability. This unparalleled reliability requirement has led rotorcraft power plants down a certain evolutionary path in which the system looks and performs quite similarly to those of the 1960 s. By and large the advancements in rotorcraft propulsion have come in terms of safety and reliability and not in terms of performance. The concept of the optimized propulsion system is a means by which both reliability and performance can be improved for rotorcraft vehicles. The optimized rotorcraft propulsion system which couples an oil-free turboshaft engine to a highly loaded gearbox that provides axial load support for the power turbine can be designed with current laboratory proven technology. Such a system can provide up to 60% weight reduction of the propulsion system of rotorcraft vehicles. Several technical challenges are apparent at the conceptual design level and should be addressed with current research. |
| File Size | 1051563 |
| Page Count | 29 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20080012556 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t78s9q12n |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2007-10-30 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Aircraft Propulsion And Power Vertical Flight Propulsion System Performance Weight Reduction Turboshafts Propulsion Axial Loads Systems Analysis Rotary Wing Aircraft Reliability Transmissions Machine Elements Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
