The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have joined forces in a General Aviation Crashworthiness Program. This paper describes the research and development tasks of the program which are the responsibility of NASA.NASA is embarked upon research and development tasks aimed at providing the general aviation industry with a reliable crashworthy airframe design technology. The goals of the NASA program are: reliable analytical techniques for predicting the nonlinear behavior of structures; significant design improvements of airframes; and simulated full-scale crash test data. The analytical tools will include both simplified procedures for estimating energy absorption characteristics and more complex computer programs for analysis of general airframe structures under crash loading conditions. The analytical techniques, being developed both in-house and under contract, are described and the comparison of some analytical predictions with experimental results is shown.
Light Aircraft Crash Safety Program
Sae Technical Papers
National Business Aircraft Meeting and Engineering Display ; 1974
1974-02-01
Conference paper
English
Light aircraft crash safety program
| NTRS | 1974
Crash safety in aircraft cabins
| AIAA | 1995
Aircraft Crash Safety Research in Australia
| SAE | 1983
Crash Safety Tests of Two Transport Aircraft
| SAE | 1964
Computer simulation of light aircraft crash
| AIAA | 1977