I'm doing some research into crashworthiness for the DS54 project, and what I'm finding is that, while there are lots of criteria being thrown about (FAR 23, CS 22), very little is available in terms of design and engineering resources. However, I stumbled upon Small Airplane Crashworthiness Design Guide during one of my searches.http://www.niar.wichita.edu/agate/Documents/Crashworthiness/WP3.4-034043-036.pdfhttp://www.niar.wichita.edu/agate/Documents/Crashworthiness/WP3.4-034043-036.pdf It was written by a third-party contractor as part of the NASA "AGATE" future-small-plane project, and is relatively recent, dating from 2002.
Is anyone else familiar with this reference? It appears to be a fairly comprehensive design resource for those interested in these matters, based on NASA research.
I've reached out to SVSUSteve about it, but I'm interested in anyone else's knowledge and experience with this text as well.
Is anyone else familiar with this reference? It appears to be a fairly comprehensive design resource for those interested in these matters, based on NASA research.
I've reached out to SVSUSteve about it, but I'm interested in anyone else's knowledge and experience with this text as well.
