28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS2012-P3.5

TOOL DEVELOPMENT FOR AIRCRAFT LOADS POST-PROCESSING

E. Unay, D. Gurak, V. Ozerciyes, A. Uzunoglu, H. Kestek, D. Cikrikci
Turkish Aerospace Industries, Inc., Turkey

Keywords: aircraft loads, load envelopes, load cases, critical load case selection

This study involves the development of LVIS, Loads Visualization Program. This tool enables visualization of aircraft loads and selection of critical load cases. LVIS can plot interactive 1-D and 2-D load envelopes, enables automatic selection of critical load cases, compare load envelopes and apply reserve factor contours over load envelopes.

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