A Bounce-Regime Impact Cushion: Crush Stroke and Peak Load for a Landing Pad Using Torsion Pressure Near the Bounce

This paper presents a complete design study of the device is a landing cushion pad, sized here for a two-tonne descending vehicle, built around a crush core of spin-polarised material whose resistance rises steeply as it is compressed, in the manner that torsion pressure rises as matter approaches a bounce rather than a singularity, derived from stated assumptions and computed throughout by the accompanying script. A 2000 kg vehicle arriving at 8 m/s carries 64.0 kJ, and a half-metre stroke holds the mean deceleration within the crewed limit only up to about 5 m/s in the plain absorber case; the stated torsion enhancement shortens the required stroke by up to the percentages tabulated for polarised fractions to 0.30. Every figure in the study is a computed result of the stated model and nothing was built or tested: the study is SIMULATED, NOT MEASURED, and its limits are stated as plainly as its performance.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-11-11
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24123302
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Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids
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A Bounce-Regime Impact Cushion: Crush Stroke and Peak Load for a Landing Pad Using Torsion Pressure Near the Bounce

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A Bounce-Regime Impact Cushion: Crush Stroke and Peak Load for a Landing Pad Using Torsion Pressure Near the Bounce

William Alexander Aldred
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Abstract

This paper presents a complete design study of the device is a landing cushion pad, sized here for a two-tonne descending vehicle, built around a crush core of spin-polarised material whose resistance rises steeply as it is compressed, in the manner that torsion pressure rises as matter approaches a bounce rather than a singularity, derived from stated assumptions and computed throughout by the accompanying script. A 2000 kg vehicle arriving at 8 m/s carries 64.0 kJ, and a half-metre stroke holds the mean deceleration within the crewed limit only up to about 5 m/s in the plain absorber case; the stated torsion enhancement shortens the required stroke by up to the percentages tabulated for polarised fractions to 0.30. Every figure in the study is a computed result of the stated model and nothing was built or tested: the study is SIMULATED, NOT MEASURED, and its limits are stated as plainly as its performance.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids
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