Overview on the Design and Research of the Beam-wire Structures of Heavy-loaded Large Airships

Abstract

The giant-size heavy-loaded large airship has the superior advantages at performance and usage to the large transport airplane.This article aims to summarize the state of the art on the world-wide development for the heavy-loaded large airships, emphasize on their structural characteristics, structural configurations, material selection, structural design and analysis methodology, as well as the design and testing of the reduced-scale models.Some suggestions are put forward to the domestic research and type development of heavy-loaded large airship.

Keywords

• heavy-loaded large airship
• beam-wire structure
• composite material
• triangular truss
• scaled model test