Journal of Theoretical
and Applied Mechanics

27, 2, pp. 321-331, Warsaw 1989

Dynamika lotu pojemnika lotniczego hamowanego spadochronem zabudowanym niesymetrycznie

Kazimierz Michalewicz

The paper presents the influence of an unsymmetrically built-in parachute on flight parameters of a container dropped from an aircraft. Equations of motion have been derived using basic Newton's law for material systems with holonomical constraints in a coordinate system related to the container. The influence of drop conditions and selected structural parameters on dynamic properties of the object in three-dimensional flight bas been studied using digital simulation. From the numerical analysis of container flight dynamics it has appeared that the existing interaction between parameters of the symmetrical and antisymmetrical motions has an essential influence on the system displacements.