Influence of landing-gear design on helicopter ground resonance

Canadian Aeronautics and Space Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 133-144

  Monterrubio, L ^a   Sharf, I ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUSELAGES; HELICOPTER ROTORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODAL ANALYSIS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESONANCE; STIFFNESS MATRIX; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

GROUND RESONANCE; LANDING GEAR DESIGN;

LANDING GEAR (AIRCRAFT);

EID: 0036623159     PISSN: 00082821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/q02-021     Document Type: Article

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