An innovative composite fuselage concept for light aircraft has been developed to provide improved crash protection. The fuselage consists of a relatively rigid upper section, or passenger cabin, including a stiff structural floor and a frangible lower section that encloses the crash energy management structure. The development of the fuselage concept is described including the fabrication of a 60-in. diameter full-scale fuselage section that is manufactured using a composite sandwich construction. Drop tests of the fuselage section were performed at 372-in/s vertical velocity for both 0°- and 15°-roll impact attitudes to evaluate the crashworthy features of the fuselage design. The experimental data are correlated with analytical predictions from a crash simulation developed using the nonlinear, explicit transient dynamic finite element code, MSC/DYTRAN.


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    Titel :

    Development of a Crashworthy Composite Fuselage Concept


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Beteiligte:

    Kongress:

    Advances In Aviation Safety Conference & Exposition ; 2000



    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2000-04-11




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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