Impact of Cable Bundles and Systems' Integration Rules Dedicated to Metallic Aircraft on the Electromagnetic Immunity of Systems in Composite Aircraft 2014-01-2122
Advanced commercial aircraft increasingly use more composite or hybrid (metal and composite) materials in structural elements and, despite technological challenges to be overcome, composites remain the future of the aviation industry. Composite and hybrid aircraft today are equipped with digital systems such as fly by wire for reliable operations no matter what the flying environment is. These systems are however very sensitive to electromagnetic energy.
During flight, aircraft can face High Intensity Radiated Fields (HIRF), static electricity, or lightning. The coupling of any of these threats with airframe structure induces electromagnetic energy that can impair the operation of avionics and navigation systems.
This paper focuses on systems susceptibility in composite aircraft and concludes that the same electromagnetic rules dedicated to all metal aircraft for systems and wiring integration cannot be applied directly as such for composite aircraft.
Citation: Moupfouma, F., Ndoye, A., Jalali, M., and Tse, W., "Impact of Cable Bundles and Systems' Integration Rules Dedicated to Metallic Aircraft on the Electromagnetic Immunity of Systems in Composite Aircraft," SAE Int. J. Aerosp. 7(1):53-58, 2014, https://doi.org/10.4271/2014-01-2122. Download Citation
Author(s):
Fidele Moupfouma, Amadou Ndoye, Mohsen Jalali, William Tse
Affiliated:
Bombardier Aerospace
Pages: 6
Event:
SAE 2014 Aerospace Systems and Technology Conference
ISSN:
1946-3855
e-ISSN:
1946-3901
Also in:
SAE International Journal of Aerospace-V123-1, SAE International Journal of Aerospace-V123-1EJ
Related Topics:
Commercial aircraft
Fly-by-wire control systems
Aircraft
Composite materials
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