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Tail cone sizing bug #71

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askprash opened this issue Jul 29, 2024 · 1 comment · Fixed by #57
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Tail cone sizing bug #71

askprash opened this issue Jul 29, 2024 · 1 comment · Fixed by #57
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The tail cone sizing also is defaulting to using the skin bending stress limit to size the tail cone that needs to resist shear due to the vertical tail generated torsion:

#--- cone material properties
# (assumed same as skin, but could be different)
taucone = sigskin
rhocone = rhoskin

and

Qv = (nvtail*Lvmax*bv/3.0)*(1.0+2.0*lambdav)/(1.0+lambdav)
Vcone = (Qv/taucone)*
(pi + nfweb* 2.0*thetafb)/
(pi + nfweb*(2.0*thetafb+sin2t))*
(xconend-xshell2)/Rfuse *
2.0/(1.0+lambdac)
Wcone = rhocone*gee*Vcone*(1.0+fstring+fframe+ffadd)
xWcone = Wcone * 0.5*(xshell2 + xconend)
tcone = Qv / (2.0*taucone*Afuse)

The shear strength (depending on the material) can be a fair bit lower than the YTS which would mean that the cone skin thickness is not adequately sized per the current code.

A little concerned that I'm misinterpreting something about the conceptual abstraction of the smeared out semi-monocoque design so I've reached out to Mark to confirm. Will update the issue accordingly.

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askprash commented Aug 5, 2024

Mark says this is tricky and is just one sizing criteria he used - the real cone sizing might be more complex and he's not really sure what sizes the skin gauge. Updated the cone to use the materials type for consistency in #57 and will look to see if any comparably tractable approach is recommended in the literature to better size the tail cone.

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