25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-7.8.3

SIMULATION OF LANDING GEAR DYNAMICS USING FLEXIBLE MULTI-BODY METHODS

P. D. Khapane
DLR, Germany

Keywords: Landing Gear Dynamics, Ground Dynamics, Gear Walk, Shimmy, MBS Simulation

The aircraft landing gear is a complex dynamic system. It may encounter various vibration modes due to brake frictional characteristics and design features leading to high loads which may result in passenger discomfort and sometimes in component failure. In this paper MBS tool SIMPACK is used to study this phenomenon.

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