Aircraft braking maneuvers are safety-critical on-ground motions that exhibit complex dynamics and significant dependence on system operating conditions. The fundamental interface between the aircraft and the ground is the landing gear. Among the landing gear components, the shock absorbers may be subject to gas leakage during their lifetime, which is an anomaly that could compromise the lateral stability properties of the aircraft on the operating regimes found during braking maneuvers. In this paper, an explicit link is established between main landing gear shock absorber leakage and aircraft lateral stability. To investigate lateral stability, a high-fidelity multibody nonlinear aircraft simulator is developed in a MATLAB/Simulink framework and validated against experimental data. To generate insight into the problem and to quantify shock absorber leakage impact on aircraft lateral stability, two simple but descriptive analytical models are also developed, each one on a different operating mode of the system. The analysis of the models reveals that shock absorber leakage can have a significant effect on aircraft lateral stability, especially at high velocities and highly damped nose wheel steering conditions. The models developed in this work may be used by aircraft control system designers to come up with more effective lateral stability controllers in the event of main landing gear shock absorber leakage.


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    Title :

    Shock Absorber Leakage Impact on Aircraft Lateral Stability During Ground Handling Maneuvers



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    Publication date :

    2023-06-01




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    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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