Topic: Shimmy Analysis of a Simple Aircraft Nose

Landing Gear Model Using Different Mathematical

Methods

Outline
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Problem Definition
1.2 History and Background

Chapter 2 Literature Review

2.1 Landing gear

2.1.1 Design considerations
2.1.1.1 Preliminary, Conceptual, and detail design
2.1.1.2 Tyres, wheels, And brakes
2.1.1.3 Shock absorber Design
2.1.2 Types of landing gear
2.1.3

2.3 The Shimmy Concept

2.2.1 Shimmy damper
2.2.1.1 Types of shimmy damper
2.2.1.2 Causes of shimmy damper
2.2.1.2 Preventions and solutions of shimmy damper

2.2.2 Shimmy modelling

2.2.3 Applications of shimmy damper
2.2.4 History of landing gear shimmy analysis

Chapter 3 Mathematical model

3.1 Nonlinear Mathematical Model

3.1.1 Torsional Dynamics
3.1.2 Elastic Deflection

3.2 Simulation of Nonlinear System

 3.3 Multibody Model Dynamic Response
3.3.1 Boeing Damper simulation
3.3.2 UTAS Damper simulation

Chapter 4 Simulation Cases and Results

4.1 Simulation Results

4.2 Conclusion

Chapter 5 Civil vs Military Aircraft Shimmy Damper

5.1 Introduction
5.2 Boeing 727-300 shimmy damper
5.3 Military UAV shimmy damper
5.4 Conclusion

Chapter 6 Conclusion