Aircraft Landing Gear Shock Absorber Gland and Spare Seal
When you are in the aircraft and as aircraft lands have you felt sudden impact of load on your body? May be not because these impacts load taken by aircraft landing gear. In some Situation you may felt impacts load due to hard landing of an aircraft. Aircraft Landing Gear act like legs of an aircraft similar to human body legs. As, we stand our body weight transmitted on ground through our legs. Similarly, aircraft weight transmitted on ground through its landing gear. Landing gear also take load at time of takeoff, landing and ground maneuvering. But, How this load transmission take place on ground through human body and aircraft landing gear ? In Human body we have bone and viscoelastic muscle ( between leg joints) in our legs which take body weight and transmit on ground. Aircraft landing gear has shock strut and shock absorber. Shock strut work as bone and shock absorber act like viscoelastic muscles. How the shock absorber of landing gear absorb the impact load ? Although,