Absorption of energy exploitation during impact of aircraft

Abstract

The article shows the variation of stopping distance as a function of deceleration and velocity change derived from the standard Newtonian equations for assumed constant acceleration. Note that the time to stop is equal for all three triangular deceleration-time pulses but that the stopping distances are not. Minimum stopping distance is achieved with a rectangular pulse, and hence it is the most desired pulse shape from a consideration of deceleration from maximum velocity at a given deceleration level in the shortest possible distance.