25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-7.11.1


CONTROLLABLE STUDY OF ELECTRO-RHEOLOGICAL FLUID APPLIED TO LANDING GEAR BUMPER

Q. Sun, Y. Guo, H. Jiang
Northwestern Polytechnical Univ., China

Keywords: electro-rheological fluid, landing gear

This research theoretically attempts to explore electrorheological fluid as a variable damping medium to actively control the landing-gear bumper of aircraft that it alleviate the high speed landing impact, which can be helpful to find a new technical means for improving natural bumping power curve and landing quality of aircraft.


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