Author(s)

F. McSherry, S. Sterling, J. Stevenson & R. Flanagan

Abstract

The primary objective of this paper is to present an authoritative computational investigation of two fundamentally different aircraft pressure cabin window designs. One having the capability of transmitting all fuselage structural forces and the other being the conventional 'plug' window which only resists the pressure forces acting normal to its surface. An idealised approach is used to analyse this problem, i.e. only an internal pressure is applied to a four foot section of a typical business jet fuselage. Two different window designs were considered; the first a conventional non-load carrying arrangement and the second a load carrying design. Since the idealised fuselage section selected has no stringers or longerons, the influence of these structural elements has been ignored. The bulk

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