After a 7 months internship at the Gust Loads and Aeroelastics office of Airbus in Hamburg, the student Boris Micheli has concluded a M.Sc. thesis aimed at defining a new modeling strategy to idealize the fuselage from a dynamic perspective. This new dynamic model has allowed to handle non-structural masses and to take into account […]
Structures
A new paper published in Aerotecnica Missili & Spazio (Springer): “Design, Optimization and Manufacturing of Metallic Wings of Light Aircraft”
Most of the wing structures of modern leisure and sport aircraft, such as LSA, VLA, ultralights, etc., are made of composite materials. These latter allow for high surface quality and lower costs, if compared to metallic solutions with conventional riveted technology, which would be adopted as production volumes are small. Assuming a greater production volume, […]
A new paper published in Aerotecnica Missili & Spazio (Springer): “Design of a Fuselage-Mounted Main Landing Gear of a Medium-Size Civil Transport Aircraft”
The subject of the present paper is the design of an innovative fuselage mounted main landing gear, developed for a PrandtlPlane architecture civil transport aircraft with a capacity of about 300 passengers. The paper presents the conceptual design and a preliminary sizing of landing gear structural components and actuation systems, in order to get an […]
A new paper published in Aerotecnica Missili & Spazio (Springer): “WAGNER: a new code for parametrical structural study of fuselages of civil transport aircraft”
In the present paper, a new code (named WAGNER) for a parametric and automatic Finite Element mesh generation of fuselages of civil transport aircraft is presented. The code aims at providing a time-cheap and reliable tool in the conceptual design phase in order to evaluate stresses and deformations in the whole fuselage structure; these data […]