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- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing
- Copyright
- Copyright © Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- ISSN
- 0002-2667
- DOI
- 10.1108/eb030652
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Abstract
THE General Problem.The inertia loading of a tricycle undercarriage presents a problem of considerable difficulty to designers. The type of tricycle under consideration has a pair of wheels not far behind the centre of gravity and a single wheel a considerable distance in front. Although such an undercarriage has special characteristics not possessed by an orthodox undercarriage with two main wheels, it has the same essential duties to perform namely to absorb the kinetic energy associated with velocity of descent and to transmit the vertical retarding forces which reduce this velocity to zero. For these purposes, however, it has in the front and rear wheel units two distinct and in many ways independent shockabsorbing systems, and the special problem is to assess the contributions made by each.
Journal
Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology – Emerald Publishing
Published: Jun 1, 1940