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Final
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Name of Airport Elevation(meter) Location Runway gradient Total Accidents Total Fatality
• Norman S. Currey published the book “Aircraft Landing Gear Design: Principles and Practices” in 1988
which includes most of the engineering and theoritical aspects and design parameters for the landing gear.
• “Finite element analysis of passenger aircraft landing gear for structural and fatigue safety” by S.G. Aftab and
his co-authors which includes prototype development of nose landing gear of Boeing 737 using Catia and
FEA using Ansys software to calculate FOS, Von-Misses stress and deformations. Finally, the comparison for
the above parameters is made between three different materials.
Landing Gear
• The landing gear is the principal support of the airplane when parked, taxiing, taking off, or
landing.
• The most common type of landing gear consists of wheels, but airplanes can also be
equipped with floats for water operations or skis for landing on snow.
• The configurations of the landing gear varies depending on the designed load and the
desired performance.
• There are two basic configurations of airplane landing gear; conventional gear or tail wheel
gear and the tricycle gear.
All the materials are selected according to standard as mentioned by the manufacturers.
Name of components Materia used Poisons ratio
Where,
Tire Stroke () =
= (17.5/2)-6.9
= 1.85 inch
= 6.68 inch
Where,
Length of Oleo Strut during static condition = 11.13 inch
For nose landing gear, only 12% of total aircraft weight during landing is to be considered.
4428 lb
Oleo diameter:
• Phase II – Solid Modeling:
The design parameters that we have obtained from the previous design calculation are used to
produce solid modelling of the landing gear.
Using a solidworks software a simplified model of the landing gear was created.
The objectives of solid modelling are given below:
To create a detailed, 3D representation of the Landing Gear.
To provide the foundation for the stress analysis using the finite element analysis (FEA) method.
To improve the design of the landing gear.
To ensure the safety and performance of the landing gear on gradient runways.
Upper
Chamber(Nitrogen) Metering Pin
Orifice plate
Torque Arm
Oil
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