Advances in Zener Diode Vehicular and Aircraft Transient Suppressors

The prime purpose of this paper is to describe the advances in Zener diode transient suppressors for ground vehicle and aircraft application. The evolution of the transient suppressor development for the U.S. Army is presented with emphasis on space, weight, and cost considerations. Improvements including an electronic thermal switch and a "battle override" switch are also described. A futuristic transient suppressor of modular design developed for use as an integral part of the equipment being protected is functionally described.     

Tailoring MIL-STD-461B for Naval Avionics Applications

Naval aviation electronics (Avionics) systems are specified and procured using MIL-STD-461 to set the fundamental EMI requirements. MIL-STD-461 permits and encourages ``tailoring' the EMI specifications for each equipment to the anticipated usage. In this paper, the Naval Avionics Center Staff Engineer for Electromagnetic Effects presents a typical tailored EMI specification as used within the Naval Air Systems Command to procure carrier based aircraft avionics. Included are the rationale for and the explanation of each modification and an estimate of the electromagnetic environment found aboard the US Navy Aircraft carriers.     

The High Power Metal-Oxide Varistor as a Vehicular and Aircrcraft Transient Suppessor

The shunt-type transient suppressor currently being used by the U.S. Army for suppression of voltage transients in tactical and combat vehicles is applicable to military aircraft as well. Advances in metal-oxide varistor technology have led to the development of a low-cost, low-voltage device having a breakdown voltage designed for use in 28-V dc electrical systems. This paper discusses the avalanche diode and the metal-oxide varistor as high-power transient suppressors. lt shows that the metal-oxide varistor has a less effective voltage clamp at the required breakdown level of 33 to 36 volts.     

Effect of Electrical Generator Parameters on Transient Suppressors

In vehicular and aircraft generating systems, the voltage transient suppressor requirements for protection of utilization loads are generally based on measured values of valtage transients and the generating system impedance. This paper presents an approximate method for determining the suppressor requirements that disregards the generating system impedance. When a voltage surge due to removal of load is suppressed, the greater portion of the removed load current is transferred to the shunt-type suppressor. The influence of generating system voltage regulator design on severity of voltage transients is discussed.     

Modular Stores Management System

Advanced Military aircraft operational requirements demand an ever increasing variety and quantity of Stores, coupled with continuous improvement in mission success, safety of operation, aircrew and groundcrew workload, interoperability and ground support facilities. Until now these ever more demanding requirements have been met by costly customized stores management system designs. GEC Avionics has surveyed the potential SMS requirements of a comprehensive range of aircraft and weapon types, in order to define a universal SMS design concept based on system availability, integrity and reliability, operational functions, peripheral interfaces and maintenance/human factors. This advanced concept not only includes provision for all existing weapon types but also has growth potential for the evolving MIL-STD-1760 weapon interfaces. System interface requirements have been rationalized in order to achieve a Modular Stores Management System (MSMS) design based on major factors such as cost, mission requirements and customer specifications. The key work for a successful MSMS design is flexibility and GEC Avionics has evolved a set of standard modules which can be packaged to satisfy specific customer needs. Typically, the standard modules provide over 80% of the hardware in every Stores Management application. The MSM concept features much reduced development costs and timescales, commonality between aircraft types minimizing parts inventory, VLSI technology providing high reliability and a common product support and maintenance philosophy. The MSM design offers a highly cost effective low risk concept for meeting the needs of modernization and new aircraft programs.     

The C-17 multifunction display: a building block for avionicsystems

The multifunction display (MFD) developed for use as the primary cockpit display system on the US Air Force C-17A military air transport is described. The 6-in by 6-in color cathode ray tube (CRT) display features a self-contained 1750 processor and vector generator capable of processing MIL-STD-1553B aircraft data and raster video into any of 10 formats as selected by the pilot or copilot. The MFD can display stroke, raster, or hybrid formats in 16 colors. Raster images are driven by sensor inputs with an RS-170 or RS-343 interface. The CRT uses a taut mask delta gun design and provides the best available brightness and line-width performance. The display features small size, low weight, low power, standard interface, and adaptable software. Reconfigurability in the aircraft is enhanced by using four identical cockpit displays     

俯仰轴飞行品质的PIO准则计算

由于新技术的采用,现代飞机出现驾驶员诱发振荡(PIO)现象大大增加,因此PIO已成为危及飞行安全的主要因素之一。介绍了MIL—STD—1797A规范中的PIO预测准则和美国“人机耦合对飞行安全影响委员会”提出的准则,论述了这些准则要求的背景、机理和计算方法,最后以某机为例进行了PIO预测计算和分析。     

Interferometer Design for Elevation Angle Estimation

Radars that are developed for the purpose of monitoring aircraft landings in the terminal air traffic control system can be designed to exploit the relatively high signal-to-noise ratio that characterizes the power budgets calculated for such a link. An interferometer using a pair of low gain antennas can be used to obtain passive coverage over a targe azimuth and elevation sector. A large baseline can be used to obtain the desired elevation angle estimation accuracy. In this paper an optimal tradeoff between the width of the subarray aperture and the width of the interferometer baseline is performed that achieves a specified elevation angle estimation error while minimizing the overall height of the interferometer configuration. The algorithm searches through the class of antenna patterns that can be synthesized from so-called finite impulse response, linear phase digital filters. For the specific problem of designing an elevation sensor for monitoring landing aircraft on final approach, the elevation angle can be estimated with no more than 1-mrad rms error when the aircraft is within ± 60° azimuth, 2.5° to 40° elevation, using two 7-wavelength subarray antennas spaced 8 wave-lengths apart. The design of a separate sensor for resolving the interferometer ambiguities is formulated as a hypothesis testing problem and solved using statistical decision theory. A bound on the probability of an ambiguity error is derived that accounts for the effects of ground reflection multipath and receiver noise.     

一种供电特性试验设备的实现方法

随着航空电子技术的发展,实现对航空电子设备供电特性的自动化检测就变得日益重要。介绍了一种在实验室环境下实现供电特性试验自动化测试的方法。根据国内外现行的相关测试标准对机载电子设备的供电特性测试要求,以及实验室原有电源测试设备,从硬件结构和软件程序两方面进行了分析;并进行硬件改造、软件升级,设计了输出管理部件、增加了高精度可控源、更改了部分测试程序,实现了输入浪涌、输入瞬变等测试功能,从而完成机载电子设备的供电特性试验。     

某型发电机模拟源的设计与应用

介绍了一种基于ICL8038芯片的飞行器发电机模拟源设计方法,该模拟源可模拟飞行器发动机开车时发电机和永磁机产生的交流电,且电压和频率可调,解决了飞行器在地面无须发动机开车即可对电子设备实施自检测所需的电源问题,可作为飞行器发动机启动系统和其他机载电子设备原位检测系统的电源。     

EM Transient Protection Requirements for Avionics LRUs

Avionics and electronic equipment installed in aircraft and air breathing missiles are required to operate without upset or damage when subjected to EM environments caused by lightning, NEMP, and Intrasystems transients. To simplify the design effort required to protect electronic equipment and minimize overlapping transient requirements and qualification tests, unified test requirements and procedures are needed. The goal of these unified test procedures would be to insure a known susceptibility level for each newly designed electronic Line Replaceable Unit (LRU). Ten avionics equipments in current Air Force inventory were tested for the purpose of developing unified procedure test methods. Operating LRUs were subjected to transients using common mode cable current (CMCC), groung potentials and chatteriing relay cable injection methods. Based on observed test results and review of current test requirements, test methods and test levels for unified test procedures for power-on transient tests of avionics equipment have been formulated.     

光纤通道在基于MIL-STD-1553的航空电子系统网络中的应用

光纤通道作为新一代的航空电子系统通信网络技术,具有传输速度高、延时低、传输距离远和可靠性高等特性,高达4G bps的数据传输带宽,为其上层通信协议提供了一种通用的高速率的数据传输通道。FC-1553作为光纤通道上层通信协议之一,对MIL-STD-1553通信协议具有完全的兼容性,它继承了传统MIL-STD-1553通信协议的基本特征,实现了向光纤通道链路层的映射,从而扩展了通信网络的结构,提高了网络的通信能力。本文首先介绍MIL-STD-1553和光纤通道的基本特性,然后描述在光纤通道中对1553通信协议的映射,最后,提出了基于光纤通道和MIL-STD-1553的航空电子系统通信网络结构。     

基于虚拟仪器的飞机供电特性参数测试系统的设计

介绍了一种基于虚拟仪器PXI总线的飞机供电特性参数测试系统的设计与实现，在设计该测试系统时采用了符合PXI总线规定的硬件仪器模块，使用图形化编程语言Labview设计了飞机供电特性参数的各种测试算法，实现了多通道同时快速数据采集以及并行同步采集。通过虚拟仪器面板的交互式使用，使界面简单明了、非常便于操作。通过对国产某型飞机供电系统的测试实验。结果表明该系统设计先进、稳定可靠、测试结果达到了要求的精度，对于被测的稳态以及瞬态参数有很好的性能，具有非常广泛的应用前景。     

新一代战斗机全机地面强度试验技术

介绍了全机地面强度试验及验证要求，分析了试验的新问题和新挑战。通过试验顶层规划，采用全新设计模式、先进的加载技术，从试验的边界条件、综合平台、动力系统、测量与控制、损伤检测与监测等方面制定了总体技术方案。研究并应用了全硬式单侧双向加载技术、试验综合平台设计技术、试验边界条件模拟技术、动力系统设计技术等多项新技术，提高了设计效率、加快了试验实施速度、提升了试验安全性和可靠性。这些新技术在新一代战斗机多架次全机静力/疲劳试验中成功应用，结果表明各试验系统安全、可靠，达到了试验要求和预期试验目标，实现了全机地面强度试验技术的跨越式进步，技术成果为后续型号试验提供了较高参考价值。     

Military avionics optical fiber data buses with active-couplerconfigurations

Military avionics optical fiber data buses of high reliability are discussed. Because Light Emitting Diodes (LED's) have better temperature performance and require less complex driver circuits than laser diodes, the former is normally chosen as an optical source in the severe aircraft environment at present. In this case, optical power budget becomes a critical factor which can significantly limit the number of terminals in a data bus. To effectively solve this problem while maintaining a high reliability, we present several configurations of all-active couplers and hybrid passive/active couplers for avionics optical fiber data buses using PIN photodiodes and LED's. The system design is also described, which incorporates a modulation scheme called partial trilevel Manchester II bi-phase coding     

涡轮泵式供油系统流体瞬变过程的高速摄影研究

本文是涡轮泵式供油系统流体瞬变过程研究工作的一部分.将泵进、出口流体瞬变过程的高速摄影照片与参数测量结果进行了对比,着重对系统中流体瞬变引起液柱分离和气-液两相流的机理和它们对系统性能的影响进行了分析,提出了防止流体瞬变对涡轮泵式供油系统造成危害的措施.     

飞机噪声的工程预测

 本文将飞机在飞行过程中发出声辐射的动态问题,按准稳态方法分解为航迹,观察点与声源的几何关系,声源特性、大气衰减与地面效应等单元过程。并以涡扇飞机和螺旋桨飞机等计算实例,阐明飞机噪声的组成,时间历程、频谱,指向性及地面等值线等同公共噪声和声疲劳有密切关系的问题。     

倾转三旋翼飞行器地面效应风洞试验

倾转旋翼飞行器在近地悬停或低速前飞时有明显的地面效应,对飞行器的气动载荷有强烈影响。针对倾转三旋翼(TTR)飞行器的地面效应问题,采用0.5 的缩比模型,在低速回流式开口风洞中设计了可移动地面平台,模拟TTR飞行器悬停和低速前飞时的离地高度,利用杆式天平测量机体所受载荷大小并使用粒子图像测速(PIV)技术捕捉机体下方的动态流场。试验结果表明:当TTR飞行器悬停离地高度在1.25倍旋翼直径以下时,地面效应影响显著,机体受到的最大上载荷约为旋翼总推力的4%,并观测到明显的涡旋喷泉流现象;在低速前飞状态,受旋翼尾流和前向来流影响,相对于悬停状态机体所受上载荷明显减小,喷泉流中心后移。试验结果对TTR无人飞行器动力系统选择,控制増稳系统设计以及借助地面效应优势提高承载能力具有一定参考价值。     

民用飞机辅助动力装置排液验证试验方法研究

民用飞机辅助动力装置(APU)排液验证试验涉及APU 系统、总体布置及气动外形设计、APU 舱结构和后尾锥结构等多个专业,属于整机集成验证问题,是国内外民机取证过程中的共性难点。对民用飞机APU 排液验证试验方法进行了研究,给出了APU 排液地面试验和飞行试验时相关测试改装、试验方法的技术要点以及试验结果的符合性判据。     

某系列飞机蓄电池组新型自动加温装置的技术研究

航空蓄电池组是我军航空兵部队某系列飞机的地面起动、机载备份应急化学电源。本文分析了我军现役某系列飞机的航空蓄电池组使用状况和温度性能后,揭示了研制稳定高效的蓄电池组自动加温装置的必要性并给出了初步的设计方案。