Advances in Aircraft Landing Gear

The aircraft landing gear system is relatively unique on board an aircraft—it is both structure and machine, supporting the aircraft on the ground, yet providing functions such as energy absorption during landing, retraction, steering, and braking.

Advances in Aircraft Landing Gear is a collection of eleven hand-picked technical papers focusing on the significant advancements that have occurred in this field concerning numeric modeling, electric actuation, and composite materials. Additionally, papers discussing self-powered landing gear and more electrical overall aircraft architectures have been included.

The content of Advances in Aircraft Landing Gear is divided into two sections: Analysis and Design Methods; and Electric Actuation, Control, and Taxi.

For those looking for more information on aircraft landing gears, the SAE A-5 committee (the Aerospace Landing Gear Systems Committee), which meets twice a year, serves as a useful forum for discussion on landing gear issues and development. A current listing of documents produced and maintained by this committee appears in the appendix.

Introduction

Part I : Analysis and Design Methods
Chapter 1 : Landing Gear Design in the Conceptual Design Phase (1999-01-5523)
Chapter 2 : Sizing the Landing Gear in the Conceptual Design Phase (2000-01-5601)
Chapter 3 : An Automatic Procedure for the Landing Gear Conceptual Design of a Light Unmanned Aircraft (2013-01-2188)
Chapter 4 : An Investigation of Landing Gear Shimmy : Tire Models, Tire Test Methodologies, Analysis and Parameter Studies (1999-01-5527)
Chapter 5 : Aircraft Level Steering Runaway Failure Analysis (2009-01-3136)
Chapter 6 : Bird and Tyre Impact Analysis on Landing Gear (2013-01-9002)

Part II : Electric Actuation, Control, and Taxi
Chapter 7 : Examination of Aircraft Electric Wheel Drive Taxiing Concept (2008-01-2860)
Chapter 8 : Optimal Control Allocation for Electric Aircraft Taxi Systems : A Preliminary Study (2014-01-2137)
Chapter 9 : DRESS : Distributed and Redundant Electro-mechanical Nose Wheel Steering System (2009-01-3110)
Chapter 10 : More Electrical Actuation for ATA 32 : Modular Power Electronics & Electrical Motor Concepts (2010-01-1745)
Chapter 11 : Hardware Design and Implementation of the Landing Gear Control Algorithm (2014-01-2186)

Appendix
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