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The external forces on an airship structure* with special reference to the requirements of rigid airship design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

Harold Roxbee Cox
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A system of external forces on the structure of a rigid airship can be analysed into two or more of the component systems due to

  1. W. The Weights of the members of the structure and the weights of the masses carried by it;

  2. L. The Lift and pressure of the gas;

  3. A. The Aerodynamic forces consequent on the relative motion of the airship and the air;

  4. T. The Thrusts of the airscrews;

  5. R. The Reactions due to either the mooring arrangements, the hauling-in guys, the supports used in the shed, or handling on the ground.

As these component systems, though restricted by their interdependence, are individually variable, a very large number of complete systems is represented by the possible combinations and variations that can occur. It becomes necessary, therefore, for the purposes of design, to attempt to limit the number of combinations to be considered, and to restrict the variations of the components, but in such a way that the structure designed to carry the resulting systems with adequate factors of safety, shall be able to carry any other possible system with an appropriate factor of safety.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 103 , Issue 1022 , April 1999 , pp. 182 - 186
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1999 

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Footnotes

*

Submitted March, 1928

References

1. It has occurred once in the history of British airships.

2. Negative.

3. U.S.A. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Report No. 204.

4. R.& M. 970, p. 10.

5. Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Vol. XXX., p. 577.

6. Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Vol. XXX., p. 465.

7. R.& M. 970, p.9

8. It is probably, in anv case, covered bv Cases 89-104. 813