• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.42 no.5
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• pp.415-422
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• 2014

There has been a lot of discussion to revise military helicopter crashworthiness design criteria. In this paper, newly revised crashworthiness criteria is analyzed centering around the Crashworthiness Index which is the core content of revised criteria. The Crashworthiness Index(CI) was conceived as an adequate method to quantify the crashworthiness capabilities of a rotorcraft design. The index can rate how well a new or derivative design complies with design requirements. The CI rating is made up of seven assessment areas. While the Basic Airframe Crashworthiness(BAC) area tends to be an objective calculation, other areas of the CI tend to be more subjective. Therefore, in this paper, detail CI calculation process for the BAC area is analyzed to inspect the effectiveness of revised criteria.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.16-23
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• 2023

The aircraft fuel system performs a number of functions such as supplying fuel, transferring fuel between fuel tanks, and measuring the amount of residual fuel in each fuel tank. Since it is a direct cause of fire hazard in crash incident, it is a must to improve survivability of crew members by designing the airframe to tolerate expected crash impact. The civil aviation authority requires intensive verification of the fuel system design to determine precise application of the airworthiness requirement. Research activity on airworthiness certification criteria and verification scheme is still insufficient, although it has a significant importance. In this paper, as part of a study to improve flight safety by developing guidelines for demonstrating fuel system crash resistance, analysis results of fuel system crash-related airworthiness certification standards, verification scheme, and cases study applicable to military rotorcraft have been reviewed.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.41 no.9
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• pp.734-739
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• 2013

Representative crashworthiness requirement documents for military helicopter are MIL-STD-1290 and the Aircraft Crash Survival Design Guide(ACSDG) which were lastly revised in the 1980's. Taking analysis results of diverse U.S. Army helicopter mishaps into account, we can say that adequate guidelines do not exist to ensure crashworthiness of new generation aircraft. In this paper, U.S. Army helicopter mishap analysis conducted by U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command(RDECOM) is readjusted to review the basis of new crashworthiness design criteria for military helicopter, in other words, Full Spectrum Crashworthiness Criteria(FSCC). This analysis effort is a part of FSC development. This effort was to research and quantify the dynamics of military aircraft crashes to be used as the quantitative basis for new design criteria.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.41 no.9
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• pp.740-746
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• 2013

Design with crashworthiness concept has been emphasized for almost aircraft and motor vehicles. However, crashes accompanied serious injury and death have been continuously occurred, and will be occurred subsequently. What was worse, it is a well-known fact that there were a good many crashes classified as survivable accidents in which fatal injuries were reported. But we cannot say that fatal injuries were inevitable consequences of those crashes. If crashworthy design for seat, restraint systems, and cabin strength were adequate or right, survivability in a crash event could be maximized greatly. To substantiate the right crashworthiness, we must thoroughly understand the characteristics of human tolerance under abrupt acceleration change, and the cabin design should be combined with proper use of energy absorbing technologies that reduce accelerations experienced by the occupants. In this paper, the emphasis on the human tolerance under abrupt accelerations as well as the necessity of change in design requirements for crash environment will be stressed to widen the belt of consensus for the right crashworthy design.

• Current Industrial and Technological Trends in Aerospace
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.104-111
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• 2007

내충돌성(crashworthiness)은 항공기 추락시 탑승객을 보호할 수 있는 항공기와 그 내부 시스템 및 구성품의 성능으로 정의할 수 있다. 민간 항공 분야에서 내충돌성에 대한 체계적인 연구가 시작된 것은 1980년대로서 90년대에 이르러서야 감항 기준으로서 완성되게 된다. 항공기의 안전성과 관련된 주요 설계 요건들이 이미 50-60년대에 기본적인 틀을 갖추었다는 점을 감안하면 내충돌성과 관련된 설계 요구조건은 상대적으로 새로 운 설계 개념으로 생각할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 회전익 항공기를 중심으로 내충돌성 확보를 위해 고려해야 할 사항을 살펴보고, 현재 민간 회전익 항공기에 적용되고 있는 주요한 내충돌성 설계기준을 소개하도록 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.18-31
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• 2018

Rotorcrafts have more severe crashworthiness conditions than fixed wing aircraft owing to VTOL and hovering. Recently, with the increasing demand for highly efficient transportation system, application of composite materials to aircraft structures is increasing. However, due to the characteristics of composite materials that are susceptible to impact and crash, demand to prove the crashworthiness of composite structures is also increasing. The purpose of present study is to derive the structural concept of composite subfloor for rotorcrafts and verify it. In order to design a crashworthy composite subfloor, the conceptual design of the testbed helicopter for the demonstration and the derivation of energy absorbing requirement were carried out, and the composite energy absorber was designed and verified. Finally, the testbed for the demonstration of a crashworthy composite structure was fabricated, and performed free drop test. It was confirmed that the test results meet the criteria for ensuring occupant survivability.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.40 no.12
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• pp.1070-1079
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• 2012

The impact energy absorbing is a very important characteristic of an aircraft to enhance the survivability of occupants when an aircraft is under the survivable accident such as an emergency landing condition. The impact energy is generally transmitted into the occupant and absorbed through a landing gear, a subfloor (lower structure of fuselage), and a seat. The characteristic of crash energy absorbing of a subfloor depends on the type of an aircraft, a shape of structure, and an applied material. Therefore, the study of crashworthiness characteristics of a subfloor structure is very important work to improve the safety of an aircraft. In this study, a finite element model of a narrow body fuselage section for the 80~90 seats regional aircraft was developed and crash simulation was executed using an explicit finite element analysis. Through survey of the impact energy distribution of each structural part of a fuselage and floor-level acceleration response, the crashworthiness characteristics and performance was evaluated.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.38 no.8
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• pp.806-812
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• 2010

Fuel tanks for rotorcraft have a great influence on the survivability of crews. The philosophy of crashworthy rotorcraft design evolved from the long term effort of the US Army. US army established MIL-DTL-27422D for specifying detail requirements related to crash resistant fuel tank especially for military rotorcraft to prevent post crash fire which is the greatest threat to life in rotorcraft crash. Crashworthiness of the rotorcraft fuel tank could be guaranteed through the crash impact tests which are specified in the MIL-DTL-27422D. Fuel tanks for Korea Helicopter Program have been developed and tested according to MIL-DTL-27422D with minor modifications of flexible fittings. The present study shows some results of the mandatory crash impact tests of the fuel tanks to verify their performances.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Disaster Information Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.270-271
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• 2015

본 논문은 추락 방지장치가 형성된 창문에 관한 것으로, 일반적인 형태의 공동주택 여닫이 창문은 사각틀 형태로 된 창틀의 내 창문이 슬라이드 가능하게 끼워져 있고, 창문을 개방 시, 창틀에 해충방지용 방충망이 설치되어 있지만, 종래의 방충망은 구조적으로 매우 취약하여 찢어지거나 휘면서 창틀로부터 쉽게 이탈되어 쉽게 추락사고가 발생하였다. 이러한 문제점을 해소하기 위해서 본 기술을 적용한 창문 설치 시, 개방했을 경우에만 체인 안전망이 형성되고, 창문을 닫았을 경우에는 체인 안전망이 창틀 또는 창문틀에 수용되어 보이지 않게 되어 미관을 해치지 않으면서도 추락 사고를 방지하여 안정성을 보장하는 효과를 거두었다.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2011.12b
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• pp.507-510
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• 2011

착륙장치는 완충장치를 이용하여 항공기 착륙 시의 충격을 흡수하는 역할을 한다. 군용 헬기를 비롯한 일부 항공기에서는 비상 착륙시 탑승원의 생존성과 안전성을 향상시키기 위해, 착륙장치에 내추락 요구조건을 부여하기도 한다. 본 연구에서는 내추락 요구조건을 충족하는 다양한 착륙장치 설계 개념 가운데, 파손 장치를 이용한 전륜 착륙장치와 Blow-off 밸브를 이용한 주륜 착륙장치 설계를 제시하고, 성능해석을 통한 입증 과정을 소개한다.