Numerical Modeling of the Multi-Rotor Type UAV Load-Bearing Frame Stress-Strain State for Gas Analyzers Transportation

Aeronautical and Space-Rocket Engineering


Аuthors

Kalyulin S. L.*, Komarov D. O.

Perm National Research Polytechnic University, PNRPU, 29, Komsomolsky Prospekt, Perm, 614990, Russia

*e-mail: ksl@pstu.ru

Abstract

The UAVs application seems prospective for the oil and gas industry for leakages diagnosing with gas analyzers. The main pipeline exploiting is being exercised year-round, including spring, autumn and winter periods under conditions of glaze-ice and rime depositions, which is being conjugated with the necessity of the UAV load-bearing frame protection from icing. Application of composite materials as the materials for the load-bearing elements allows integrating electrical heating elements of the anti-icing systems into the material structure at the stage of their development. This approach is being applied for the icing prevention at the nose tip of the aviation engine air intake and the UAV propellers.
The article examines three structural embodiments of the rotor-type UAV load-bearing frame from composite materials for gas analyzers transportation at the oil and gas industry, which fabrication does not require designing and producing of the cost intensive die molds.
The most effective ones are the two options, namely the frame from the carbon fiber plates with lower placement of the electric motors site with supports of beams from the plywood for the stiffness increasing, and the frame from the carbon fiber pipes, attached by the elements fabricated by the additive technologies from the PETG plastic. For the active area increasing and stiffness enhancing, both options herewith employ the multilevel central site from carbon fiber.
Application of polymer composite materials while developing load-bearing structure of the multi-rotor type UAV allows envisaging the electric heating elements of the anti-icing systems integration into the composite structure at the stage of carbon fiber pipes and sheets fabrication.
The proposed load-bearing frame based on the carbon fiber tubes, which are readily available on the Russian market from both foreign and domestic manufacturers, combined with the 3D-printed connecting elements, is a prospective solution, and it offers the possibility for scaling this approach for various standard sizes.

Keywords:

the unmanned aerial vehicle stress-strain state numerical modeling, heating elements integration of the anti-icing system into the power frame from the polymer material, gas analyzers transportation for the oil and gas industry, structural solutions of the unmanned aerial system load-bearing frame

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