• Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.56-61
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• 2015

Because of kinematic complexities, nonlinear behavior, etc, the performance of oleo-pneumatic landing gear is predicted by qualified commercial softwares. While commercial softwares predict more exactly, it takes a long time to construct or modify a model. At initial design stage, design parameters can be determined quickly and exactly enough with simple 2 degree of freedom model of mass, spring and damping. 2 degree of freedom model can be easily applied to optimization and reliability analysis which takes repetitive computation. In this paper, oleo-pneumatic landing gear is modeled as a nonlinear 2 degree of freedom model. The analysis are compared with landing gear drop test. To determine design parameter, optimization problem is solved with genetic algorithm and 2 degree of freedom model.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.99-104
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• 2009

In this paper, the drop characteristic of the small aircraft landing gear of SUAV has been analyzed and performed on orifice optimal design for shock absorption efficiency. The SUAV landing gear was simple oleo pneumatic type without metering pin. The landing gear was modelled by MSC ADAMS software. Drop test evaluation was conducted to confirm the analysis model. As a result of correlation between analysis and test results, it was verified that these results were coincided with very well. After confidence review of analysis model through the correlation between test and analysis results, design parametric study was performed by using confirmed analysis model. Optimal orifice size with best efficiency have been decided in this study.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.508-511
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• 2008

The most landing gear use oleo-pneumatic shock strut to absorb the impact energy during touchdown. The shock strut is composed of the oil damper and the gas spring, especially the oil damper provides resistance force which is proportional to the square of landing speed. In case of high landing speed, the abnormal peak load can be occurred and transferred to the airframe structure. To prevent this, the pressure-relief valve is used to limit the damping force under the specific level. In this paper, it is presented the design process to find optimal damping and analysis results using pressure-relief valve.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.480-483
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• 2010

착륙장치는 완충장치를 이용하여 항공기 착륙 시의 충격을 흡수하는 역할을 한다. 여러 방식의 완충장치가 있으나, Oil에 의한 감쇠력과 Gas에 의한 스프링력을 이용하여 에너지를 흡수하는 유공압 방식이 가장널리 사용되고 있다. 착륙장치 성능해석에서는 다양한 착륙조건에 대한 Dynamic simulation을 통해 최적의 Orifice 형상과 Gas spring 특성을 결정하고, 설계에 필요한 착륙하중을 구하게 된다. 이 논문에서는 상용 프로그램인 VI-Aircraft를 이용한 착륙장치 성능해석 과정을 소개한다. 유공압 완충장치의 모델링 및 Landing simulation 결과를 분석하고, 이에 따른 완충효율 최적화 과정을 제시한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 1992.10a
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• pp.3-7
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• 1992

포는 대체로 정확도와 최대 발사거리 및 최대 발사속도 등에 의해 그 성능 이 표현된다. 그 중에서도 최대 발사속도는 매우 중요한 인자로서 포의 주퇴 복좌 장치의 성능에 의해 직접적으로 영향을 받게 된다. 따라서 포의 최대 발사속도 향상을 위해서는 주퇴복좌 장치의 동특성 해석 능력을 확보하고, 그로부터 주퇴 장치의 설계 변경이 가능하도록 해야 한다. 한편, 주퇴복좌기 의 주퇴특성은 주퇴시 총주퇴저항력이 전주퇴장에 대해서 거의 일정해야만 포신에 전달되는 힘을 최소로 하면서 주퇴시간을 최소로 할 수 있으며 이러 한 설계 개념으로 주퇴복좌기를 설계한다. 그에 따라 주퇴복좌기는 그 내부 가 가변 오리피스 및 조절 로드로 이루어져 주퇴복좌기의 주퇴 저항력을 주 퇴속도 및 주퇴변위에 따라 변화시키도록 되어 있다. 따라서 주퇴복좌기는 필연적으로 강한 비선형 특성을 나타낸다. 이러한 주퇴복좌기를 모델링할 때 에 기존에는 주퇴복좌기내의 모든 유체역학적 요소를 고려하여 모델링하는 기법이 통용되어왔다. 그러나 이러한 모델링은 각 요소의 모델링 오차가 누 적될 위험이 있으므로 정확한 모델링을 보장할 수 없으며, 매우 복잡한 과정 을 거쳐야 한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 주퇴 완충기 시뮬레이터를 이용한 실 험에 따른 계의 파라미터 예측을 통하여 모델링하는 기법을 시도하여 보았 다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.81-86
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• 2012

The shock absorber is very important in various mechanical field. Without the shock absorber, the structure might be broken. For lunar lander, honeycomb shock absorber to absorber the shock by using plastic deformation of honeycomb has been used. It is cheap and simple to use but impossible using again without changing the honeycomb. The oleo-pneumatic type shock absorber is not able to use in the cosmos because it is vacuum and its temperature. This study suggests the hybrid shock absorber combined spring-ratchet mechanical shock absorber and eddy current electromagnetic damper. The ratchet restricts rebound of lunar lander and the spring converts the impact energy to the potential energy of the spring. The eddy current damper dissipates the impact energy by eddy current force without contact between the parts. This hybrid shock absorber is reusable while the honeycomb shock absorber isn't. The impact absorbing test of the hybrid shock absorber was carried out. This paper shows that the compared results the hybrid shock absorber with ratchet and without ratchet and evaluates the possibility of using for lunar lander.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.10-17
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• 2020

When an aircraft is taxiing, excitation force is applied according to the shape of the road surface. The sprung mass acceleration caused by the excitation of the road surface negatively affects the feeling of boarding. This paper addresses the verification process of the semi-active control method applied to improve the feeling of boarding. The Magneto-Rheological damper landing gear model is employed alongside the control method. It is a Oleo-Pneumatic damper filled with a fluid having the characteristics of increasing yield stress when subjected to a magnetic field. The control method involves verifying Skyhook Control Type2 developed by Skyhook control. The Sinozuka white noise model that considers runway characteristics was employed for the road surface in the simulation. The runway road surface obtained through this model has stochastic characteristics, so the dynamic characteristics were analyzed by applying Monte-Carlo simulation. A dynamic analysis was conducted by co-simulating the landing gear model made by RecurDyn and the control method designed by Simulink. Simulation results show that the Skyhook Control Type2 method has the best control effect in the low speed range compared to the passive type (without control) and skyhook control.

• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.319-334
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• 2018

In this study, the failure mode and energy absorption capabilities of a composite shock absorber device, during an emergency landing are evaluated. The prototype has been installed and tested in laboratory simulating an emergency landing test condition. The crash absorber presents an innovative configuration able to reduce the loads transmitted to a helicopter fuselage during an emergency landing. It consists of a composite tailored tube installed on the landing gear strut. During an emergency landing this crash absorber system should be able to absorb energy through a pre-designed deformation. This solution, compared to an oleo-pneumatic shock absorber, avoids sealing checks, very high values of the shock absorber pressure, and results to be lighter, easy in maintenance, inspect and use. The activities reported in this paper have become an attractive research field both from the scientific viewpoint and the prospect of industrial applications, because they offer benefits in terms of energy absorbing, weight savings, increasing the safety levels, and finally reducing the costs in a global sense.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.37 no.7
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• pp.921-927
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• 2013

The performance estimation of a landing gear with uncertain parameters is presented. In actual use, many parameters can have certain degrees of variations that affect the energy absorbing performance. For example, the shock strut gas pressure, oil volume, tire pressure, and temperature can deviate from their nominal values. The objective function in this study is the ground reaction during touchdown, which is a function of the abovementioned parameters and time. To consider the uncertain properties, convex modeling and interval analysis are used to calculatethe objective function. The numerical results show that the ground reaction characteristics are quite different from those of the deterministic method. The peak load, which affects the efficiency and structural integrity, is increases considerably when the uncertainties are considered. Therefore, it is important to consider the uncertainties, and the proposed methodology can serve as an efficient method to estimate the effect of such uncertainties.