NASA Langley Research Center is engaged in an extensive research and development task aimed at providing the general aviation industry with reliable crashworthy airframe design technology. This paper describes the full-scale crash tests of general aviation airplanes being conducted to generate data on simulated crashes and to study the nonlinear dynamic behavior of aircraft structures. Analytical techniques under development for predicting nonlinear behavior of general airframe structures under crash-loading conditions are also described. Data are presented from the full-scale crash tests as well as comparison of analytical predictions with experimental results on some simplified structures.


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    Title :

    Simulation of aircraft crash and its validation


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Annual Meeting and Technical Display ; 1975 ; Washington, DC


    Publication date :

    1975-02-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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