Jet Blast Resistance Experiment of Engineered Material Arresting System

Abstract

Engineered materials could arrest aircrafts rushing out of runway, but its fragile and can be easily damaged by jet blast exhausted by taking off aircraft nearby. Engineered material unit coating and encapsulation were described in this paper, and a jet blast resistance experiment is designed to quantitatively measure the units resistant capability. In this experiment, a test bed built by units will receive a taking-off Boeing 737-300 aircrafts jet blast for over 60 seconds. The test order decreased distance from aircraft tail to the test bed. And the predicted air velocity and temperature was calculated through aircrafts characteristics contour. All the design made the experiment high reliable and economical. Experimental result indicated that the nearest distance from the test bed to aircraft tail could be 15 meters, and this experiment result has already been used for design of the arresting system in a Chinese civil airport.