Shimmy Analysis of a Simple Aircraft Nose Landing Gear Model Using Different Mathematical Methods

Aerospace Science and Technology

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 545-555

  Somieski, Gerhard ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analytical solutions; Describing functions; Instability; Limit cycles; Nose landing gear; Shimmy analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031319170     PISSN: 12709638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1270-9638(97)90003-1     Document Type: Article

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