Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Modeling and analysis of leading edge ribs of an aircraft wing
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Application No.: US15192674Application Date: 2016-06-24
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Publication No.: US10295438B2Publication Date: 2019-05-21
- Inventor: Eric S. Lester , Michael A. O'Grady , Alan N. Baumgarten , Navin Kumar , Venkata Narasimha Ravi Udali , Sachin Kulshrestha , Tejoram Bhagavathula
- Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
- Applicant Address: US IL Chicago
- Assignee: The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee: The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Chicago
- Agency: Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
- Main IPC: G01B5/28
- IPC: G01B5/28 ; G01M99/00 ; B64C3/18 ; B64F5/00 ; G06F17/50 ; B64C3/28 ; B64C3/14

Abstract:
An apparatus is provided for analysis of a leading edge rib of a fixed leading edge section of an aircraft wing. The apparatus may identify geometric or inertial properties of a plurality of stiffeners of the rib in which respective stiffeners are represented by a collection of geometry within a solid model of the rib, and perform an analysis to predict a failure rate of the leading edge rib under an external load. From the failure rate, the apparatus may determine a structural integrity of the leading edge rib under the external load. Identifying the properties may include, extracting a section cut of the geometry that corresponds to and has one or more properties of the respective stiffener, and identifying the properties of the cross-section and thereby the respective stiffener based on a correlation of the cross-section to a generic profile of a plurality of different cross-sections.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170370808A1 MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF LEADING EDGE RIBS OF AN AIRCRAFT WING Public/Granted day:2017-12-28
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