Industry Oriented Mini Project report

On
“DESIGN & STATIC ANALYSIS OF AIRCRAFT LANDING GEAR”

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of degree of

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY
In
AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

A project work submitted to the JNTU-HYD in partial fulfillment of the requirements for
the award of degree in Aeronautical Engineering
By
NAME ROLL NO
S. HARSHA VARDHAN REDDY 10R21A2151
K.K.S.R. JAGADEESWAR 10R21A2121
K. SHIVA PRASAD 10R21A2123

Under the Esteemed Guidance of

Mr. B.NAGARAJ GOUD

DEPARTMENT OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

MLR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
(Affiliated to JNTU, Hyderabad)
Marri Laxman Reddy Avenue, Qutbullapur, Dundigal Hyderabad
2013

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 MLR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
(Affiliated to JNTU, Hyderabad)
Marri Laxman Reddy Avenue, Qutbullapur, Dundigal Hyderabad
DEPARTMENT OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the project entitled “DESIGN & STATIC ANALYSIS OF
AIRCRAFT LANDING GEAR” is being submitted.

NAME ROLL NO

S. HARSHA VARDHAN REDDY 10R21A2151

K.K.S.R. JAGADEESWAR 10R21A2121

K. SHIVA PRASAD 10R21A2123

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of degree of the MLR INSTITUTE
OF TECHNOLOGY in AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING by JNTU Hyderabad, and
this report has been reviewed by the committee. This record is a bonafide work carried out by
them under my guidance and supervision. The result embodied in this project report has not
been submitted to any other university or institute for the award of any degree of diploma.

INTERNAL GUIDE EXTERNAL GUIDE

B.NAGARAJ GOUD, Asst Prof

HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT

Dr.S.Srinivas Prasad

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 DECLARATION

I hereby declare that the report of the B.Tech project work entitled “DESIGN
& STATIC ANALYSIS OF AIRCRAFT LANDING GEAR “ in partial fulfillment for
the award of the degree of Bachelor of Technology in Aeronautical Engineering
,which is being submitted to the department of Aeronautical Engineering ,MLR
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Hyderabad is a bonafide of work carried out by
team .The material contained in this report has not been submitted to any University
or Institution for the award of any degree

Place: MLR Institute of Technology

S.HARSHA VARDHAN REDDY (10R21A2151)

K.K.S.R.JAGADEESWAR (10R21A2121)
K.SHIVA PRASAD (10R21A2123)

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We are thankful to lot of people who helped us to make this project very much
successful. We take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude to the teaching faculty
who relentlessly tried to get best of us .It is because of their great effort that we are here on
the verge of becoming Aeronautical engineers ,ready to take the challenges that come either
in the design and analyze the site under any toll taking circumstances.

We would like to express our sincere thanks to and deep sense of gratitude to our
Principal P.Bhaskar Reddy who granted us the permission to conduct our project at
Hyderabad.

We also express over whole hearted thanks to our head of the department
Dr.S.Srinivas Prasad who stood with us before initiating the project.

We are also grateful to our internal project guide Mr.B. NAGARAJ Goud for the
excellent guidance and unstinted support right from the beginning.

We would like to convey thanks to our internal project guide Mr.B.Nagaraj goud,
for his regular guidance and constant encouragement and we are extremely grateful to him for
his valuable suggestions and unflinching co-operation throughout project work.

We are also thankful to the staff of AERO for co-operating with us. Not forgetting to
thank our project mates for working together in perfect co-ordination to make this project a
grand success. Finally, special thanks to the entire faculty and staff of Department of
Aeronautical Engineering, MLR Institute of Technology for all that they taught for all that
they had done in the past years.

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 ABSTRACT

The total plane is taken into position of taxiing, take-off, landing; the
only thing which helps plane to go easier in process is termed to be
LANDING GEAR.

The design of the landing gear is one of the more fundamental

aspects of aircraft design. The design and integration process encompasses
numerous engineering applications, e.g., structures, weights, runway
design and economics, and has become extremely sophisticated in the last
few decades.

The need for lightweight, high performance flying machine has

today shifted the emphasis from the use of conventional advanced metallic
materials to that of composites. High specific strength and stiffness
characteristics coupled with techno economic feasibility are a password to
the acceptability of any material in aircraft construction. This project
presents an approach for “Design; Analysis; of a Landing Gear of an
Aircraft” made of advanced composites materials using advanced CATIA
and ANSYS tools and techniques.

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 LIST OF CONTENTS
TITLES PAGE NO
List of Figures
Chapter 1 Introduction to LANDING GEAR 1-2
1.1 History
Chapter 2: Characteristic Properties of Landing gear 3-6
2.1 Types of landing gear
2.2 Components of landing gear & layouts
2.3 Landing gear arrangements
2.4 Landing gear loads
Chapter 3: Landing Gear Controllers 7-9
3.1 Breaks & Implication of landing gear
3.2 Steering Systems & Skid controls
Chapter 4: Shock Absorber Design 10-16
4.1 Shock Absorber Types
4.1.1 Gas/oil
4.1.2 Oleo pneumatic type
4.2 Gas/oil shock absorbers
4.3 Air/oil mixing in the tires
4.4 Tire Friction and its resistance
4.5 Side forces, slip angel
4.6 Hydro planning
Chapter 5: Un-orthodox landing gear 17-20
5.1 Un-orthodox landing gears
5.2 Tracks of landing gear
5.3 Air cushion landing gear system
5.3.1 Advantages & disadvantages
Chapter 6: Under-carriage and wheel design properties 21-23
6.1 Brakes, wheels & skid controls
6.2 wheel designing of landing gear
Chapter 7: Introduction to SOFTWARES 24-34
7.1 CATIA V5R20 & ANSYS12
Conclusion & bibliography 35-36

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 LIST OF FIGURES

1.1 Types of landing gear arrangements

1.2 Diagram of nose landing gear and its load calculations
1.3 Two main landing gears

2.1 Powered steering angle and free waiver range

2.2 Oleo-pneumatic shock absorber
2.3 Layout requirements for landing gear
2.4 Tire slip

3.1 Ski-equipped LC-130 aircraft

3.2 Table of layout requirements
3.3 Air cushion landing gear

4.1 Under-carriage of Boeing 777

4.2 Landing gear layout arrangement with the help of under-carriage

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