Development of innovative prognostic methods for EMAs
Gaetano Quattrocchi
Development of innovative prognostic methods for EMAs.
Rel. Matteo Davide Lorenzo Dalla Vedova, Paolo Maggiore. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Aerospaziale, 2019
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Abstract
In recent years, the adoption of Electro-Mechanical Actuators (EMA) in the aerospace sector, mainly as secondary actuation devices, is strongly increasing, in particular in the more electric and all electric design philosophies. These approaches aim at creating a single form of secondary power, in order to drive all users (systems); the only form of energy so versatile to be capable of accomplishing such task is electric energy. While using electricity, EMAs provide the natural electro-mechanical interface needed to convert secondary power, electricity, to useful mechanical work. At this moment, the use of EMAs in large scale commercial aircrafts is relegated to secondary flight control actuation (flaps, slats, airbrakes), while the use as main flight control surfaces actuation is still limited to small UAVs.
The manufacturers’ choice has multiple reason: firstly, in large power applications, electro-hydraulic actuators are still lighter and more compact; in second place, EMAs are still recent technology, so there is not a complete literature on their failure modes nor an established prognostic methodology
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