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.


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    Title :

    Undercarriage Structural Approvals


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    Published in:

    Edition :

    2nd ed. 2018


    Publication date :

    2018-01-01


    Size :

    28 pages




    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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