• Login
    View Item 
    •   SMARTech Home
    • Georgia Tech Theses and Dissertations
    • Georgia Tech Theses and Dissertations
    • View Item
    •   SMARTech Home
    • Georgia Tech Theses and Dissertations
    • Georgia Tech Theses and Dissertations
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Cost benefit analysis of adding technologies to commercial aircraft to increase the survivability against surface to air threats

    Thumbnail
    View/Open
    PATTERSON-THESIS-2018.pdf (2.562Mb)
    Date
    2018-07-27
    Author
    Patterson, Anthony
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Abstract
    Flying internationally is an integral part of people's everyday lives. Most United States airlines fly internationally on a daily basis. The world continues to become a more dangerous place, due to improvements to technology and the willingness of some nations to sell older technology to rebel groups. In the military realm, there have been countermeasures to combat surface to air threats and thus increase the survivability of military aircraft. Survivability is defined as the ability to remain mission capable after a single engagement. Existing commercial aircraft currently do not have any countermeasure systems or missile warning systems integrated into their onboard systems. Better understanding of the interaction between countermeasure systems and commercial aircraft will help bring additional knowledge to support a cost benefit analysis. The scope of this research is to perform a cost benefit analysis on the addition of these technologies that are currently available on military aircraft, and to study the adding of these same technologies to commercial aircraft. The research will include a cost benefit analysis along with a size, weight, and power analysis. Additionally, a simulation will be included that will analyze the success rates of different countermeasures versus different surface to air threats in hopes of bridging the gap between a cost benefit analysis and a survivability simulation. The research will explore whether or not adding countermeasure systems to commercial aircraft is technically feasible and economically viable.
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/1853/61675
    Collections
    • College of Computing Theses and Dissertations [1191]
    • Georgia Tech Theses and Dissertations [23877]
    • School of Computational Science and Engineering Theses and Dissertations [100]

    Browse

    All of SMARTechCommunities & CollectionsDatesAuthorsTitlesSubjectsTypesThis CollectionDatesAuthorsTitlesSubjectsTypes

    My SMARTech

    Login

    Statistics

    View Usage StatisticsView Google Analytics Statistics
    facebook instagram twitter youtube
    • My Account
    • Contact us
    • Directory
    • Campus Map
    • Support/Give
    • Library Accessibility
      • About SMARTech
      • SMARTech Terms of Use
    Georgia Tech Library266 4th Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30332
    404.894.4500
    • Emergency Information
    • Legal and Privacy Information
    • Human Trafficking Notice
    • Accessibility
    • Accountability
    • Accreditation
    • Employment
    © 2020 Georgia Institute of Technology