Aircraft fuel tank vulnerability to hydraulic ram : modification of the Northrop finite element, computer code BR-1 to include fluid-structure interaction

• Main Author: Ball, Robert E.
• Other Authors: Operations Research (OR), Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.), Graduate School of Operational and Information Sciences (GSOIS)
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 1974
• Subjects: Aircraft survivability; aircraft vulnerability; fuel cells; hydraulic ram; OCEANOGRAPHY > RESEARCH > ARCTIC OCEAN; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Northrop
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10945/28846

The finite element digital computer code BR-1, developed by the Northrop Corporation, for predicting the effects of internal air blast on combat aircraft structures is modified to include the effects of compressible fluid -structure interaction. The true interaction phenomenon is approximated by the...