Open AccessHarness/container assembly for sport parachutes – A new concept
Author(s) -
Adrian Săliştean,
Claudia Niculescu,
Popescu Georgeta,
Serban Olaru,
Nite Constantin
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
industria textilă
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 1222-5347
DOI - 10.35530/it.069.03.1474
Subject(s) - container (type theory) , usable , volume (thermodynamics) , engineering , jumper , suspension (topology) , mechanical engineering , marine engineering , computer science , electrical engineering , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , homotopy , world wide web , pure mathematics
The paper presents a new design concept of the harness/container assembly for sport parachutes. It can be used withreserve parachutes and main parachutes of different volumes. So the assembly will be multifunctional. The containeris the subassembly that keeps the main and reserve parachute canopies in a folded condition, together with thesuspensions lines, the deployment device and the pilot chute in the reserve and main compartments. The harness, orsuspension system, ensures the link between the parachute jumper and the canopies and supports the weight of theparachute jumper.Currently, container parachute manufacturers produce containers whose compartments have a well-defined volume anddedicated to a particular type of parachute with the same volume in folded state.The new concept consists in the design and development of a harness/container assembly with variable volume compartments. Thus it is possible to have a multifunctional container usable with canopies of different volume in a foldedstate.