Abstract The undercarriage (or landing gear) of an aircraft is the most important structure in ensuring safe landing (and take off) of an aircraft. As such, it is subject to intense stresses at take-off, landing, and indeed, in-flight, and in order to perform correctly, it must be able to survive these stresses repeatedly. This chapter discusses in detail the experimental procedures used to determine the response of an aircraft undercarriage to the various stresses it must endure, in order to determine the initial (and continued) airworthiness of any given design of undercarriage. Analytical methods are also briefly discussed, but these tend to be simulations of the experimental tests that this chapter covers in detail.
Undercarriage Structural Approvals
Initial Airworthiness ; 139-166
2nd ed. 2018
2018-01-01
28 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1997
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