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Occupant responses in a full-scale crash test of the sikorsky acap helicopter
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Fasanella, Edwin L. McEntire, Joseph Lewis, Alan Jackson, Karen E. Boitnott, Richard L. |
| Copyright Year | 2002 |
| Description | A full-scale crash test of the Sikorsky Advanced Composite Airframe Program (ACAP) helicopter was performed in 1999 to generate experimental data for correlation with a crash simulation developed using an explicit nonlinear, transient dynamic finite element code. The airframe was the residual flight test hardware from the ACAP program. For the test, the aircraft was outfitted with two crew and two troop seats, and four anthropomorphic test dummies. While the results of the impact test and crash simulation have been documented fairly extensively in the literature, the focus of this paper is to present the detailed occupant response data obtained from the crash test and to correlate the results with injury prediction models. These injury models include the Dynamic Response Index (DRI), the Head Injury Criteria (HIC), the spinal load requirement defined in FAR Part 27.562(c), and a comparison of the duration and magnitude of the occupant vertical acceleration responses with the Eiband whole-body acceleration tolerance curve. |
| File Size | 1601195 |
| Page Count | 22 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20020060781 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t3fz27c8r |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2002-06-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Aircraft Design, Testing And Performance Dynamic Response Finite Element Method Helicopters Acceleration Tolerance Impact Tests Composite Structures Crashworthiness Flight Test Instruments Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |