Air cargo containers are used to load freight on various types of aircrafts to expedite their handling. Fuel cost is the largest contributor to the total cost of ownership of an air cargo container. Therefore, a better fuel economy could be achieved by reducing the weight of such containers. This paper aims at developing innovative, lightweight design concepts for air cargo containers that would allow for weight reduction in the air cargo transportation industry. For this purpose, innovative design and assembly concepts of lightweight design configurations of air cargo containers have been developed through the applications of lightweight composites. A scaled model prototype of a typical air cargo container was built to assess the technical feasibility and economic viability of creating such a container from fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite materials. The paper is the authoritative source for the abstract.
Lightweight Composite Air Cargo Containers
Sae Int. J. Aerosp
SAE 2016 Aerospace Manufacturing and Automated Fastening Conference & Exhibition ; 2016
Sae International Journal of Aerospace ; 9 , 1 ; 185-189
2016-09-27
5 pages
Conference paper
English
Lightweight Composite Air Cargo Containers
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2016
|NTIS | 1974