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Force-System Resultants and Equilibrium
Published in Richard C. Dorf, The Engineering Handbook, 2018
Hale, F. J. 1984. Introduction to Aircraft Performance, Selection, and Design. John Wiley & Sons, New York. Houghton, E. L. and Brock, A. E. 1970. Aerodynamics for Engineering Students. Edward Arnold, London. McCormick, B. W. 1979. Aerodynamics, Aeronautics, and Flight Mechanics. John Wiley & Sons, New York.
Hydrogen in Aeronautics
Published in G. Daniel Brewer, Hydrogen Aircraft Technology, 2017
The first use of hydrogen in aeronautics was for the inflation of balloons. Early balloon experiments were flown using hot air as the lifting medium. Hydrogen was first employed when, in France, a small silk balloon was constructed by the Roberts brothers, under the direction of physicist J.A.C. Charles. It was flown in Paris on August 27, 1783. It rose to a height of 3000 ft and traveled a distance of 15 mi despite a pouring rain.
Single Degree-of-Freedom Undamped Vibration
Published in Haym Benaroya, Mark Nagurka, Seon Han, Mechanical Vibration, 2017
Haym Benaroya, Mark Nagurka, Seon Han
In 1906 he was awarded a two-year fellowship from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and he left Budapest to study at Göttingen, where he was greatly influenced by Hilbert and Prandtl. He developed mathematical models for the buckling of large structures, using data obtained through experiments with a large hydraulic press. For this research von Kármán was awarded his doctorate in 1908 and in the same year he accepted a position at Göttingen. His interest in aeronautics grew into a research area with the construction at Göttingen of a wind tunnel for the Zeppelin airship company.
Virtual reality simulation of human-robot coexistence for an aircraft final assembly line: process evaluation and ergonomics assessment
Published in International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 2021
Kiara Ottogalli, Daniel Rosquete, Javier Rojo, Aiert Amundarain, José María Rodríguez, Diego Borro
Within Industry 4.0’s transformation, the aeronautics industry is continuously evolving and incorporating cutting-edge technologies for designing, developing, and deploying the next generation of aircraft products, to respond to the fast market growth and new customer expectations. Building an aircraft involves many phases, including design, production, assembly, and testing (Airbus n.d.). Particularly, the Final Assembly Line (FAL) of an aircraft begins with joining the segments of the fuselage and attaching the wings to finally undergo cabin and cargo installation processes. In this case, there is little use of automation compared to other industries such as automotive or pharmaceutics. This is due to diverse factors including that the product volumes are small, the variety of parts are high, and the high quality standards, which means that a large number of specialized automated systems will be required and will have low utilization rates, increasing the costs (Webb et al. 2015).