Dynamic Response Index Minimization for Personnel Escape Systems

Abstract

The paper outlined a technique which may be employed with minimum modification to existing rocket catapult components to reduce the probability of injury to users of aircraft emergency escape systems. Experimental tests have verified the results of theoretical analyses and have demonstrated the ability to modify the catapult ballistics and thus moderate the dynamic response indes (DRI). In addition, this technique may also be employed to upgrade the performance of existing and future aircraft escape systems by permitting maximization of the ejection velocity with respect to the allowable catapult stroke and DRI specification limit.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0750318

Entities

People

  • Leonard A. Destefano

Organizations

  • Frankford Arsenal

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Biomedical Research
  • Catapults
  • Compression
  • Differential Equations
  • Dynamic Response
  • Ejection
  • Equations
  • Escape Systems
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Probability
  • Resonant Frequency
  • Specifications
  • Spinal Column
  • Spinal Injuries
  • Test Vehicles

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Regression Analysis.