If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#21
|
|||
|
|||
"Ernest Christley" wrote in message om... How about stress monitors built into the prop (I have no idea if anyone makes such a thing). Would help you to carve a perfect prop. How much would someone pay for the software to analyze this data? Also, you'd probably need structurally integrated sensors, which would have to be strong enough to support the loads. This would be a pretty tough engineering problem in itself. Miniature temp probes and air pressure sensors that you can stick all over the place. More software. Sure it could be done, but cheaply enough for the average home builder? Vibration sensors stuck inside control surfaces and different parts of the skin. Early warning system for flutter. Might be really expensive to get the signals characterized well enough for a warning system. Nothing is stopping anyone from doing any of this with wired sensors. It would just be cleaner and easier if the wire can be left on the spool. There's a ton of stuff stopping people from doing this right now. It's money. None of the stuff you've mentioned is even remotely innexpensive. I know people who've researched this stuff with the wired sensors for several years, and haven't gotten much of it out of the lab. Yeah, with steady improvements in computational fluids, finite element, mems tech, sensing tech, etc., this stuff will be eventually packaged into something us home-builder types can afford to use. However, most of it is still too damned expensive, manpower intensive, and technically immature for even the military to employ on huge aircraft development programs like JSF. By the time this stuff really becomes generally available, I'm sure there will be something better than blue tooth around. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Vibration Monitor (Hyde, Wanttaja?) | RST Engineering | Home Built | 71 | April 4th 05 04:44 PM |
Pinging Ron Wanttaja - "Unporting?" | Bob Chilcoat | Home Built | 13 | November 24th 04 07:28 PM |
Vibration Testing | Jim Weir | Home Built | 20 | October 10th 04 07:22 AM |
Vibration Testing | Jim Weir | Owning | 21 | October 10th 04 07:22 AM |
Survey - 3 blade prop conversion- Cockpit vibration, happy or not | Fly | Owning | 20 | June 30th 04 05:32 PM |