Aerospace Project

Trade Agreement: NAFTA/AIT/Canada FTAs with Peru/Colombia/Panama Tendering Procedures: Generally only one firm has been invited to bid Attachment: None Non-Competitive Procurement Strategy: Exclusive Rights Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No Vendor Name and Address: Carleton University Office of Research Services 510F Tory Building 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa Ontario Canada K1S5B6 Nature of Requirements: Aerospace Project

W0046-14090S/A Porter, Marta M. Telephone No. - (613) 547-7587 ( ) Fax No. - (613) 545-8067

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Background The Department of National Defence (DND), specifically Director of Technical Airworthiness and Engineering Support (DTAES), is sponsoring a three year long project to develop a nonlinear aeroelastic prediction capability and uncertainty quantification for general 3-D aircraft applications. Classical aeroelastic prediction methodologies are currently based on linearity of both the structure and its aerodynamics. In general, this approach has served reasonably well the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) operational requirements, but has also showed its limitations in various instances some of which could have proved fatal. Flight envelopes have been restricted due to unexpected nonlinear aeroelastic events, and the ability to clear new stores has been compromised. It is envisaged that this problem will be even more prevalent for new aircraft acquisitions as technology advancements push operational limits such that nonlinear behaviour may become the norm as opposed to the exception. At this time, the Canadian Forces (CF) has no capability to assess nonlinear aeroelastic behaviour, be it in-house and even at the Canadian level. For instance, Bombardier aeroelastic evaluation methodologies are still based on linear behaviour. Nonlinearities are not considered explicitly and are somehow managed by enhanced safety margins, which can be over-conservative and sometimes not necessarily safe. Over the years, the Royal Military College of Canada (RMCC) has developed a very good understanding of nonlinear aeroelastic behaviour, along with prediction and identification tools of physically challenging canonical problems, but which are relatively small in terms of degrees of freedom. We now have the objective to address complex and large scale realistic configurations, such as eventually the CF18.

Scope

The scope of the project is to assess the guidelines below from a flutter point of view and apply explicit uncertainty quantification methodologies. The most efficient method to certify new stores is clearance by similarity with previously cleared stores. MIL-HDBK-1763 (Military Handbook 1763) provides guidelines with allowable variations in stores physical properties which could allow the application of such an approach. However, these guidelines have been constructed from store separation experience and are therefore strictly applicable to the separation problem only, not to the flutter problem which is different. Moreover, these guidelines are based on dated methodologies which do not explicitly consider uncertainty in the system. A set of similarity criteria will be developed for linear flutter store clearance similar to what exists already for separation purposes in the form of MIL-HDBK-1763 Table B-1 (military handbook). In doing so, Carleton University will be constructing the Computational Structural Dynamics (CSD) model and then implementing an uncertainty quantification capability on both linear and nonlinear structures.

Tasks include

Conduct a literature search on aeroelastic sensitivity studies for wing stores.

Develop a linear FEM model of a generic but realistic wing/stores configuration.

Assess the effect of stores structural properties and location on the modal characteristics of the wing.

Purely based on the no-flow wing modal characteristics, develop similarity criteria for flutter applying uncertainty analysis tools.

Add a simple linear aerodynamic model and assess effect of stores structural properties and location on the modal and flutter characteristics of the wing.

Based on the simple linear aeroelastic model, develop updated similarity criteria for flutter applying uncertainty analysis tools.

Add nonlinear structural models and evaluate scope of effect of nonlinearities on flutter similarity criteria applying uncertainty analysis tools.

Develop a FEM model of a generic but realistic full aircraft configuration and/or acquire a CF18 FEM model or other CF relevant aircraft.

Trade Agreements The requirement is subject to the following the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement (CPFTA), Canada-Columbia Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA) and the Agree on Internal Trade (AIT) however it is proposed to invoke limited tendering reasons in accordance with the following: Single Sourcing applies under the following

GCR: Section 6d) Only one person is capable of performing the contract: NAFTA: Article 1016: (2b) Limited Tendering Procedures where, for works of art, or for reasons connected with the protection of patents, copyrights or other exclusive rights, or proprietary information or where there is an absence of competition for technical reasons, the goods or services can be supplied only by a particular supplier and no reasonable alternative or substitute exists; AIT: Article 506, (12b) where there is an absence of competition for technical reasons and the goods or services can be supplied only by a particular supplier and no alternative or substitute exists; Scheduled Dates of Service: For 31 March, 2014 develop a linear FEM model of a generic but realistic wing/stores configuration and based on the simple linear aeroelastic model, develop updated similarity criteria for flutter and submit results in a report end-December 2013 and end-February 2014. For 31 March, 2015 develop a FEM model of a generic but realistic full aircraft configuration and/or acquire a CF18 FEM model or other CF relevant aircraft and submit results in a report end-December 2014 and end-February 2015. For 31 March, 2016 develop a set of similarity criteria based on a generic but realistic full aircraft configuration accounting for stores' structural and submit results in a report end-December 2015 and end-February 2016.

The estimated cost of the contract is $72,000.00 + HST if applicable. Sole Source Justification Uncertainty quantification is structural dynamics and aeroelasticity is a very specialized engineering field, which requires expert knowledge in both disciplines. There exists only one group in Canada which possesses this set of skills. It is the Uncertainty Quantification group at Carleton University.

Carleton University owns the proprietary software which the Royal Military College will use for their date analysis.

Proposed Supplier: Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Dr. Room 1303 Ottawa Ontario K1S 5B6 SUPPLIER'S RIGHT TO SUBMIT A STATEMENT OF CAPABILITIES: "Suppliers who consider themselves fully qualified and available to provide the services and/or goods described herein, may submit a statement of capabilities in writing to the contact person identified in this notice on or before the closing date of this notice. The statement of capabilities must clearly demonstrate how the supplier meets the advertised requirements." Closing date for a submission of a statement of capabilities. December 23, 2013 The PWGSC file number, the contracting officer's name and the closing date of the ACAN must appear on the outside of the envelope in block letters or, in the case of a facsimile transmission, on the covering page. Inquiries and statements of capabilities can be directed to: Marta Porter Supply Specialist Public Works and Government Services Canada 86 Clarence St. 2nd Floor Kingston, Ontario K7L 1X3 Delivery Date: Above-mentioned

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