27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS2010-P3.2

STRUCTURAL DESIGN APPROACHES TO IMPROVE ENVIRONMENTAL WORTHINESS OF HUMIDITY, FUNGUS AND SALT FOG FOR AIRBORNE EQUIPMENTS

X. H. Wang, Y. Yao, S. P. Cheng
Beijing Univ., China

Keywords: structure design, airborne equipments, environmental worthiness

Humidity, fungus and salt fog are the main corrosive environmental factors that cause aircrafts’ failures in their service life. To protect airborne equipments, global humidity, fungus and salt fog conditions and their destructive effects to airborne equipments are analyzed; and the structural design approaches for airborne equipments are put forward.

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