Bepalen van het massatraagheidsmoment met behulp van een bifilar pendulum: Determining the moments of inertia using a bifilar pendulum

The aim of this thesis is to investigate the use of a bifilar pendulum for determining the moments of inertia of the TU Delft solar boat and to quantitatively predict the estimates. In the first part, several methods are discussed which can be applied in deriving the equations of motion of the pendulum. A new method, Kane's method, will be...

The Development of an Inertia Estimation Method to Support Handling Quality Assessment

Mass of an aircraft as well as distribution of it along the body are important concerns during the design process due to their significant influence on performance and inertia. Inertia of an aircraft has to be known in order to examine the handling qualities, which have a large effect on aircraft’s design. However, due to the smeared properties...