Session 4: Crashworthiness

Objective1: To give an example of crashworthiness (passive safety)

Objective2: To show how the aeronautical technology could manage crashworthiness problems

 

Explanation:

The teaching materials will utilized to give an example of how manage a passive safety problem

Material:

Multimedia black board  +  Power Point Like Software

Photos  / Videos

Experiments

CIRA Crash Test

Figure 14 CIRA Crash Test

Main activities

  • By  experimentation and pictures an example of passive safety problem will be shown and how it could be solved
  • Student will be asked to talk about their knowledge on aeronautical passive safety

Maximum duration:

30 minutes

Main question to be asked:

  • What is the impact of passive safety requirements on Air Transportation costs?
  • Ask the student their opinion on how important is the passive safety requirements  in Air Transport

Developing of Activity

  • Make the students to understand by a little experiment how a crash event in landing phase could be managed
  • Make the students to understand how import could be to manage passive safety on Air Transportation

Results of Activity

  • One way to manage passive safety is adsorbing kinetic energy by deformation of structure
  • There are other problems to be solved in the case of an airplane crash

Contact coordinator

Dr. Corieri Patricia

von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
Chaussée de Waterloo 72
BE 1640 Rhode-Saint-Genèse

Tel: +32 (0)2 359 96 55
Fax: +32 (0)2 359 96 00

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