Windshield Design Essay

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machine design, Vol.3(2011) No 1, ISSN 1821-1259 pp. 61-64 Research paper WINDSHIELD DESIGN FOR THE LIGHT TRAINER AIRCRAFT Bojan ŠEKUTKOVSKI1, * - Sonja PETROVIĆ2 - Aleksandar BOJANIĆ3 - Ahmed MUKHTAR4 4 University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade, Serbia Sudan University of Science & Technology, Faculty of Engineering - Aeronautical Department, Khartoum, Sudan 1,2,3 Received (27.02.2011); Revised (24.03.2011); Accepted (28.03.2011) Abstract: In this article the complete design process of windshield installation for the light trainer aircraft was described. Entire process was done using computer aided design (CAD) software. Passing through developing stages of the aircraft design, some influence factors directly have been causing change of windshield shape and structure design until the whole structure of aircraft had been frozen. One of the flight-technical requirements is efficient and rapid separation of the windshield in critical situations. Very thoughtfully design of the mechanisms that are consisted by windshield was performed due to this emergency requirement. The benefit of computer design process compared to the classic design process on a paper was confirmed here by easiness to simulate kinematics of the mechanisms and to inspect how do they behave in specific situations. Keywords: Windshield, canopy, computer design, CAD 1. INTRODUCTION Windshield is an important assembly of an aircraft and some master features are depended by windshield quality. Important quality characteristics are: visibility through the canopy, windshield structure rigidity, impact resistance, easiness of handling, reliability of the internal mechanisms and the lightness of construction. In order to get all these properties it is needed to pass through the process of design optimization. Constant computer simulation of kinematics and

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