Manufacturing of Aircraft Composite Wheel Fairing
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Date
2021
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UMT, Lahore
Abstract
Most of the aircraft with fixed landing gears are equipped with wheel fairings. Wheel fairings are
important to reduce the aerodynamic drag during flight, and to protect the landing gear from
environmental hazards such as dirt, dust, rain, etc. The content of the report covers the complete
manufacturing process of wheel fairing using composite materials. The first part of the study
describes the purpose of wheel fairings with their advantages. The advantages of composite
materials in the manufacturing of wheel fairings, and different manufacturing procedures
currently used in the aviation industry. The last part of the report covers the modelling process of
the wheel fairing design on SolidWorks, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis of the
wheel fairing on Ansys, the method of mould fabrication, and the manufacturing procedure of
the composite wheel fairing