27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-9.8.2

CRASHWORTHINESS ASSESSMENT IN AIRCRAFT DITCHING INCIDENTS

C. Chandra, T. Y. Wong, J. Bayandor*
RMIT Univ., Australia; *Virginia Tech., USA

Keywords: advanced aerospace design, crashworthiness, water ditching, smoothed particle hydrodynamics, coupled lagrangian-eulerian

This study aims to contribute to the understanding of aircraft water-crash events, commonly known as ‘ditching’. Experimentation and numerical modelling techniques have been employed and analysed to assess a methodology that can be applied to the design for water-crashworthiness of aerospace vehicles.

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