Qualification Test of an A340-300 Passenger Door

Kurzfassung

The certification of the new Airbus A340-600 requires a vibration qualification of the aircraft doors to cover the sustained engine imbalance event. For this purpose a dynamic qualification test was performed on an A340 passenger door utilizing DLR´s Multi-Axis vibration Simulator MAVIS. The test programme was derived following the actual Aerospatiale Matra Airbus requirements. In addition to the qualification tests a modal identification of the door was performed in order to provide a data base for the analytical modelling of the door and its locking mechanism. This test report gives a summary of the test performance and test results. The A340 passenger door could be successfully qualified.