Mechatronic System for Impact Tests for Aero Structures

Abstract:

The article presents the structure of the developed pneumatic propellant system for impact tests particularly conducted in the aviation. The solution is intended for the realization of experimental tests enabling the simulation and recreation of the event of collision of the aircraft, or other means of transport, with the solid object or a bird in motion. The projectile thrower has been designed in form of a 250 mm pneumatic cannon. The size and the energy parameters of the cannon enable the objects weighing several kilograms to be thrown with the speed reflecting the actual collision of the aircraft with a big bird, both in the areas of subsonic and supersonic crash speed. In order for the complex realisation of the impact tests, the structure of the test system for impact tests with the option to record the event by means of a synchronised vision path and an impact force measurement path, has been developed.

• Periodical: Solid State Phenomena (Volume 198)
• Pages: 366-371
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.198.366
• Online since: March 2013
• Authors: Andrzej Zbrowski, Andrzej Majcher
• Keywords: Air Cannon, Airplane, Bird Test, Impact Tests

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