DNSVCFA · Development of a novel servovalve concept for aircraft
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2017-09-01 → 2019-10-19
- EU contribution
- €183,455
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF
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Results in brief
Development of a novel servovalve concept for aircraft
The aim of this research was to develop a novel servo-valve concept for aerospace and industrial applications having lower complexity, lower manufacturing costs and weight, and greater reliability and efficiency compared to common servo-valve configurations. The fellow’s activity alongside the research group at the Centre for Power Transmission and Motion Control (University of Bath) was at first focused on devising such a new valve concept. The novel idea was conceived after a thorough study of the state of the art, which produced two journal papers. This novel servo-valve concept was at first studied through numerical modelling and optimisation. Afterwards, a prototype was built and tested at the fluid power laboratory of the University of Bath. Both the numerical and the experimental results show the high potential of the novel valve concept in terms of response speed, simplicity of construction and reduction of the internal leakage. The research activity has led to the publications of 7 papers in conferences and journal indexed in Scopus. The possible commercial exploitation of the valve concept, which can have a great impact on European economy and society, is being evaluated among the University of Bath, Moog and the Polytechnic of Bari.
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Project objective
The aim of this research project is to develop, in line with the Work Programme 2014-2015 of Horizon 2020 “Smart, green and integrated transport-mobility for growth”, a novel servovalve prototype for aerospace applications having lower complexity and number of parts, lower manufacturing costs and weight, and greater reliability and efficiency compared to common valve configurations. The fellow’s activity alongside the research group at the Centre for Power Transmission and Motion Control (University of Bath) will focus on the optimization of an existing valve prototype (which was recently conceived at the Centre) with the aim of allowing the safe and effective implementation of the new valve concept in aircraft. The research objectives will be reached thanks to the fellow’s unique expertise in optimization and computational fluiddynamic analysis applied to hydraulic valves and experimental testing of hydraulic components, combined with the host’s expertise in designing novel control techniques. The fellow, who will undertake high level training both at Bath and at the Aircraft Group of Moog Controls Ltd (5 month secondment), will utilize new approaches such as a reliable and flexible optimization process based on numerical models coupled to genetic algorithms; the technical solutions resulting from the numerical activity will be constructed through innovative manufacturing techniques, such as Additive Manufacturing, so as to allow the realization of non-conventional geometries. The outcomes of the latter phase will be tested experimentally on a hydraulic test bench. The new servovalve concept, which is expected to outperform commonly used configurations, has the potential to save costs and time across the whole life cycle of aircraft and to reduce power consumption and emissions of aircraft, with great impact on European economy and society.
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Participants
- UNIVERSITY OF BATH · BATHCoordinatorUnited Kingdom
Links
- View on CORDIS
- DOI: 10.3030/701336
- https://www.researchgate.net/project/Marie-Curie-Individual-Fellowship-Development-of-a-novel-servovalve-concept-for-aircraft
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