A significant amount of kinetic energy is dissipated during each commercial aircraft landing. To improve efficiency and environmental sustainability, the can instead be converted to electricity by utilizing arresting gear systems. This paper presents a novel design that couples an system electrical generators. The results show successfully recover applicable different sizes ranging from Airbus ...

Abstract. The evolution towards “more electric” aircrafts has seen a decisive push in the last decade affecting both propulsion components and aircraft systems. An interesting fast-developing application field of electro-mechanical actuators is that aeronautical brakes. E-LISA research project under way within Clean Sky 2 framework objective developing an innovative iron bird dedicated to execu...

The E-LISA research project, under way within the Clean Sky 2 framework, has objective of developing an innovative iron bird dedicated to executing tests on landing gear a small aircraft transport equipped with electro-mechanical and electrical brake. Such include simulation complete procedures different operating conditions such as runway friction, presence periodical defects along runway, var...

The health of the landing gear retraction/extension(R/E) hydraulic system may be assessed using fuzzy comprehensive evaluation (FCE), however traditional FCE method depends solely on human assessment by specialists, which is excessively subjective. To address issue excessive subjective variables in assessment, an improved model based enhanced risk coefficient provided, includes four considerati...

In this work the three disciplines of condition based maintenance (CBM), structural health monitoring (SHM) and prognostics and health management (PHM) are described. Then the characteristics of the disciplines are compared, which leads to a clear insight in the commonalities, but also in the difference in objectives and scope of the three disciplines. The disciplines are then demonstrated usin...

In this paper a methodology is proposed to elaborate landslide activity maps through the use of PS (Persistent Scatterer) data. This is illustrated through the case study of Tramuntana Range in the island of Majorca (Spain), where ALOS (Advanced Land Observing Satellite) images have been processed through a Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) technique during the period of 2007–2010. The ...