Journal of Theoretical
and Applied Mechanics

27, 2, pp. 333-346, Warsaw 1989

Dynamika przestrzennego ruchu ładunku z ważkim (bezwładnym) spadochronem

Kazimierz Michalewicz

The influence of a brake parachute on flight characteristics of a load dropped from a carrier has been considered.

The load has been assumed to constitute an invariable (material) system with a flexible (i.e. being deflected) parachute of a defined mass. While analysing the object dynamics, longitudinal, radial and lateral load motions have been considered as well as parachute relative motion.

Equations of motion for a load coordinate system have been derived in the form of ąuasi-coordinates using Boltzmann-Hamel equations for material systems with holonomic constraints.