Optimizing sandwich foam floats for amphibious aircraft: enhancing performance under water impact

Improving amphibian aircraft landing performance is the primary goal of this paper, which aims to optimize the design of sandwich aluminum foam (SAF) energy absorbers. To determine how various configurations of the sandwich structure’s layers affected landing performance, extensive transient dynamic...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering
Main Authors:	Fauzan Djamaluddin, Zaini Ahmad
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2025-10-01
Subjects:	float optimization crashworthiness sandwich aluminium foam amphibian aircraft
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmech.2025.1701456/full