Landing Gear Mechanical Network Synthesis for Improving Comfort at Landing Considering Aircraft Flexibility
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Abstract
The landing impact that occurs during aircraft touchdown results in the development of significant loads and accelerations within the airframe. Accurate knowledge of the landing loads is necessary not only for predicting the resulting stresses for design of the airframe, but also for designing strategies to mitigate the vibratory loads and improve the ride quality. Perceived passenger comfort is dependent both on the magnitude of the acceleration experienced by the passengers and on the frequency content of the vibrations. Using a flexible airframe model to better capture the loading regime and frequency response at landing impact, this study optimizes various single-port (two-terminal) passive mechanical networks that consist of an arrangement of springs, dampers, and inerters to minimize passenger discomfort and peak forces applied to the aircraft. The performance is compared with a baseline oleo-pneumatic shock absorber. First, the candidate layouts are optimized, and then the observations from this exercise are used to synthesize a mechanical network with a desired frequency response. All considered mechanical networks demonstrated the ability to control the frequency content of the input loading, thus resulting in a reduction in accelerations and an improvement in all comfort parameters used in this study over the oleo-pneumatic baseline.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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