A study of canopy shapes and stresses for parachutes in steady descent /
A.D. Topping, J.D. Marketos, N.C. Costakos.
Description
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English
- Published
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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio : Wright Development Center, Air Research and Development Command, United States Air Force, 1955.
- Summary
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Analytical solutions for the fully inflated shapes of the circular canopies of flat, extended skirt, conical, personnel guide surface, and conical ring slot parachutes in steady descent are given. The solution for the flat canopy uses as a first approximation the Taylor curve, and after taking into account the fullness of the gore, yields a shape having a rounded apex rather than the flat top characteristic of the Taylor curve. The solution for the flat canopy is found to be adaptable to all the other canopies except the conical, even though both the conical ring slot and the personnel guide surface canopies are conical. An entirely new solution is developed for the conical canopy by obtaining a first approximation that neglects gore fullness and then altering this by taking fullness into account.
- Note
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"GER 7071"--Page [i].
"Wright Air Development Center"--T.p."
"October 1955."
Goodyear Aircraft Corporation, Akron, Ohio."
"Technical Report 55-294."
"AD No. 103 963."
This work is part of the library's "Parachute History Collection", donated by the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. Institut für Flugsystemtechnik, through the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Aerodynamic Deceleration Systems Technical Committee.
- Physical Description
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xxii, 260 leaves :
illustrations ;
32 cm.
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