RT Generic
T1 Main Landing Gear Design for Piper Arrow IV
A1 Camarero Ruiz, Patricia
AB The main topic of this mechanical engineering design project is to redesign thelanding gear of the Piper Arrow IV- PA-28RT-201 Aircraft. The new designed needed totake into account a 66% decrease in aircraft weight respect to the original Piper Arrow.With the decrease weight of the aircraft, the landing gear components must be individuallyredesigned to accommodate the stress and forces applied. When considering the redesignof each component some of the factors focused on were high strength, safety factor,durability and finally overall cost by reducing the overall weight of the landing gear.One major key in the redesign of the landing gear components was the use ofSolidWorks, as stress analysis along with high-cycle fatigue analysis was easily simulatedwith this program. This software also gave us the ability to change and compare materialstrength and cost for further simulation without the need of prototyping or testing.Once this was done, I was then able to determine the best alternative in redesigningmy landing gear. I decided that the price of the material was an important factor, so Iavoided high valued materials and I also wanted to reduce the weight of the landing gear inorder to increase the payload. These two important factors were really the backbone of mydecisions. I also had to make sure that all of the possible changes that I was going to makemet with the Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR).This report documents the iterative process and summarizes the challenges indesigning a landing gear.
YR 2014
FD 2014-07
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/26745
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/26745
LA eng
DS e-Archivo
RD 3 jul. 2024