Aircraft performances at landing or takeoff depend strongly on runway surface conditions. There is a need to provide aircraft pilots with reliable information in view of determining landing performance. Currently, this information is based on a description of the type and depth of contaminants on the runway surface. This paper presents a new method to improve the correlation between friction coefficients and braking coefficients measured respectively by ground vehicles and aircraft. A three-step approach is proposed, using a friction model developed by the Engineering Sciences Data Unit (ESDU), to weight the measured coefficients by factors taking into account the characteristics of the devices and the contaminants. The friction ESDU model is used on contaminated surfaces. The methodology is applied to data collected from extensive friction tests conducted between 1996 and 2003 (in the Joint Winter Runaway Friction Measurement Program). Characteristics of ground friction measuring devices and aircraft are provided as inputs for the ESDU model. It was found that the correlation between weighted ground friction and braking coefficients is improved significantly compared with the correlation between unweighted coefficients. Advantages of the newly proposed method are discussed in terms of using ground friction coefficients as a promising alternative to determine the runway condition code for aircraft pilots.
Modeling-Based Approach to Relate Ground Friction Measurements to Aircraft Braking Performance
Journal of Aircraft ; 53 , 1 ; 251-261
2015-04-09
11 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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