Morphing Air Foil NACA 6412 Inverted Using Flexure Hinges
- 4 April 2022
- journal article
- Published by Trans Tech Publications, Ltd. in Advanced Engineering Forum
- Vol. 45, 43-48
- https://doi.org/10.4028/p-c8n56y
Abstract
In this paper a NACA 6412 regulated shape will be inverted to understand the behaviour of the air flow around the shape, this with the intention of convert the lifting effect to a downforce and braking effect changing the shape of the wing, displacing the trailing edge approximately 100mm over the first stage position. Using analysis as Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to depicts the operational parameters of the two stages of the inverted NACA 6412 air foil. To reach this displacement, the main idea is using a flexure hinge designed as a M-Shape beam, this flexure hinge works as a spring to allows to the morphing wing moves around the 100mm of trailing edge displacement and the spring-beam effect creates an inverse force, when the wing moves close to the110mm and does not exceed the yield strength of the Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) of 74Mpa. As a result of this motion parameters, we could integrate a flexure hinge to an inverted air foil regulated to reach braking and downforce forces in order to slow down vehicles or aerodynamic devices.Keywords
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