Solid Mechanics and Vehicle Conceptual Design

Dynamics and Test Method of Carrier-based Aircraft Nose Landing Gear Sudden Extension

  • WEI Xiaohui ,
  • LIU Chenglong ,
  • NIE Hong ,
  • ZHANG Ming ,
  • YIN Qiaozhi
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  • 1. State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China;
    2. Key Laboratory of Fundamental Science for National Defense-Advanced Design Technology of Flight Vehicles, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China

Received date: 2012-06-01

  Revised date: 2013-01-28

  Online published: 2013-02-18

Supported by

National Natural Science Foundation of China (51105197, 51075203);Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions

Abstract

In order to understand the equivalent relationship of a landing gear's sudden-extension test and the real sudden-extension process of a carrier-based aircraft, a dynamics model of a certain carrier-based aircraft catapult-assisted takeoff process is established. The catapult-assisted takeoff dynamics is simulated and the nose landing gears dynamic response to the sudden-extension process is obtained. A test method is introduced to study the nose landing gear's sudden extension based on equivalent mass. Accordingly, a test program is presented for independent nose landing gear sudden-extension analysis. With simulated results of the models introduced above, the value range of relevant test parameters is studied. It is shown that the independent nose landing gear sudden-extension dynamic response is relatively consistent with the full-aircraft catapult-assisted takeoff dynamics when the equivalent mass coefficient is equal to 0.8.

Cite this article

WEI Xiaohui , LIU Chenglong , NIE Hong , ZHANG Ming , YIN Qiaozhi . Dynamics and Test Method of Carrier-based Aircraft Nose Landing Gear Sudden Extension[J]. ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA, 2013 , 34(6) : 1363 -1369 . DOI: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2013.0120

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