Structural Design and Safety Verification of a Service Hatch Used at Airports by FEM Analysis
| Author(s): |
Jakub Fiačan
(Department of Design and Mechanical Elements, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Žilina, 010 26 Zilina, Slovakia)
Jozef Jenis
(Department of Design and Mechanical Elements, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Žilina, 010 26 Zilina, Slovakia)
Damián Čechmánek
(Department of Design and Mechanical Elements, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Žilina, 010 26 Zilina, Slovakia)
Slavomir Hrcek (Department of Design and Mechanical Elements, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Žilina, 010 26 Zilina, Slovakia) Pavol Michal (Department of Applied Mechanics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Žilina, 010 26 Zilina, Slovakia) |
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| Medium: | journal article |
| Language(s): | English |
| Published in: | Infrastructures, April 2023, n. 4, v. 8 |
| Page(s): | 73 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/infrastructures8040073 |
| Abstract: |
This paper examines the design of a maintenance shaft hatch cover at an airport service road which will be utilized at airports in the European Union. The shaft has a particular application: it will be used for information networks and airport security. The hatch is also subject to extremely stringent safety criteria. For instance, in a catastrophic case, a wheel from an aircraft could strike the hatch cover. Based on all the input information and after a thorough analysis of the European standards concerning the safety of transport, after performing numerous FEM static evaluations, a hatch cover that can be utilized in airport infrastructure was created. As a result of the FEM analyses, the elements with the greatest impact on static safety were identified. Finally, a simulation of stress tests based on the traffic areas for which the hatch cover was designed, in terms of traffic safety, was carried out. The test led to a positive result, showing that it is possible to apply the hatch directly in practice. |
| Copyright: | © 2023 the Authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. |
| License: | This creative work has been published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) license which allows copying, and redistribution as well as adaptation of the original work provided appropriate credit is given to the original author and the conditions of the license are met. |
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