For this, the tankage experienced only minor thermal loadings and flight loads, hence, the predominate loading was the tank pressurization. Since the tanks were basically tension designed, the fatigue and damage tolerance criteria played the most important part in the overall design of the tank. Sensitivity factors were generated for the reference LH2-fueled airplane to provide a basis for evaluation of the effects of changes from the baseline design. For example, the various candidate insulation systems and tank structural concepts offer tradeoffs of the tankage offset distance (distance between exterior surface to tank) and weight. As the offset varies, the aircraft fuselage length must change to provide the required fuel volume within the fixed fuselage cross-section and hence the sensitivity on the aircraft DOC could be assessed.
Liquid hydrogen tankage design
1978-01-01
Conference paper
No indication
English
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