H.G. Conway, Landing Gear Design, Chapman and Hall, London, 1958. The standard, now out of print.
Stanton, G., "New Designs for Commercial Aircraft Wheels and Brakes," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 5, No. 1, January 1968, pp. 73-77.
O'Massey, R. C., "Introduction to Landing Gear Design," ASM Paper No. W70-18.1, March 1970.
Kraus, P. R., "An Analytical Approach to Landing Gear Weight Estimation," SAWE Paper No. 829, May 1970.
Attri, N. S. and Amberg, R. L., "Advances In Landing Gear Systems," Aircraft System Testing, AGARD Conference Proceedings CP-299, 1981, (N81-29077).
Roskam, J., Airplane Design "Part IV: Layout Design of Landing Gear and System," Roskam Aviation, Ottawa, Kansas, 1986.
Roskam, J., Airplane Design "Part V: Component Weight Estimation," Roskam Aviation, Ottawa, Kansas, 1986.
Young, D. W., "Aircraft Landing Gear: The Past, Present and Future," Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Proceedings, Part D2, Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Vol. 200, 1986.
Norman S. Curry, Aircraft Landing Gear Design: Principles and Practices, AIAA, Washington, 1988. Originally an internal Lockheed report.
Niu, M. C. Y., Airframe Structural Design, Conmilit Press, Ltd., Hong Kong, 1988. This book contains a good chapter on landing gear design.
Veaux, J., "New Design Procedures Applied to Landing Gear Development," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 25, No. 10, October 1988, pp. 904-910.
Jenkins, S. F. N., "Landing Gear Design and Development," Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Proceedings, Part G1, Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Vol. 203, 1989.
Wille, R. H., "Landing Gear Weight Optimization Using Taguchi Analysis," SAWE Journal, Winter 1990, pp. 31-40.
S. J. Greenbank, "Landing Gear-The Aircraft Requirement," Proceedings of Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Vol. 205, 1991, pp. 27-34.
"Landing Gear Design Loads", AGARD Conference Proceedings CP-484, June 1991, (N91-28150).
Kempf, G. and Haines, G. H., "Development of Undercarriage Design Loads," (N91-28153).
Krauss, A. J., "Considerations on Optimality of Landing Gear Arrangement and Design," (N91-28156).
Ladda, V. and Struck, H., "Operational Loads on Landing Gear," (N91-28158).
Chai, S., and Mason, W.H., " Landing Gear Integration in Aircraft Conceptual Design," AIAA Paper 96-4038, Proceedings of the 6th AIAA/NASA/ISSMO Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization, Sept. 1996. pp. 525-540. The electronic version of this file is an Adobe Acrobat format.
Sonny T. Chai and William H. Mason, " Landing Gear Integration in Aircraft Conceptual Design," MAD Center Report MAD 96-09-01 (rev. March 1997) This is an html table of contents with pdf chapters, as well as the code and sample cases. It also contains a much more extensive bibliography.
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