Structural Uncertainty Effect on Classical Wing Flutter Characteristics

Flutter-critical velocity is usually estimated from deterministic analyses by assuming that physical and geometrical parameters are perfectly known. However, aleatory and epistemic uncertainties, especially those associated with the definition of material properties, are intrinsically present partly because of the random nature of every physical system and partly because those properties are evaluated from a finite number of observations. The paper focuses on the combination of structural reliability analysis with aeroelastic simulation to give a correct flutter speed evaluation for design purposes. Two typical aeronautical test cases have been considered: (1) an isotropic material structure and (2) a composite material structure. Different computational methodologies (classical and developed by authors) have been coupled with a simple two-dimensional aeroelastic model to study the qualitative consequences of uncertainty in determination of critical flutter speed and to provide a comparison between differ...

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