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Behaviour of the aircraft

Behaviour of the aircraft

  • 1 Crash !

    In order to study the behaviour of aircrafts in such configurations and to include crash certification requirements* in the design process, industrials use powerful finite element** tools and computers. These tools make it possible to take into account in the numerical models, at different scale levels, a large pannel of parameters which eventually influence the structural behaviour of the aircraft (soil, materials, assemblies, ...)
  • 2 Free flight under tension

    Sacso designates a very particular model testing mechanism in a wind tunnel, dedicated to predicting the behavior of aircraft in flight. Photo Patrick Galabert -© ONERA 2006