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A transient response analysis of the space shuttle vehicle during liftoff
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Brunty, J. A. |
| Copyright Year | 1990 |
| Description | A proposed transient response method is formulated for the liftoff analysis of the space shuttle vehicles. It uses a power series approximation with unknown coefficients for the interface forces between the space shuttle and mobile launch platform. This allows the equation of motion of the two structures to be solved separately with the unknown coefficients at the end of each step. These coefficients are obtained by enforcing the interface compatibility conditions between the two structures. Once the unknown coefficients are determined, the total response is computed for that time step. The method is validated by a numerical example of a cantilevered beam and by the liftoff analysis of the space shuttle vehicles. The proposed method is compared to an iterative transient response analysis method used by Martin Marietta for their space shuttle liftoff analysis. It is shown that the proposed method uses less computer time than the iterative method and does not require as small a time step for integration. The space shuttle vehicle model is reduced using two different types of component mode synthesis (CMS) methods, the Lanczos method and the Craig and Bampton CMS method. By varying the cutoff frequency in the Craig and Bampton method it was shown that the space shuttle interface loads can be computed with reasonable accuracy. Both the Lanczos CMS method and Craig and Bampton CMS method give similar results. A substantial amount of computer time is saved using the Lanczos CMS method over that of the Craig and Bampton method. However, when trying to compute a large number of Lanczos vectors, input/output computer time increased and increased the overall computer time. The application of several liftoff release mechanisms that can be adapted to the proposed method are discussed. |
| File Size | 2768536 |
| Page Count | 110 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19900018419 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t3jx38n77 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1990-08-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Space Transportation Dynamic Structural Analysis Transient Response Space Shuttles Liftoff Launching Launching Pads Boundary Conditions Computerized Simulation Spacecraft Models Equations of Motion Power Series Loads Forces Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
