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A Combined Analytical and Experimental Study on Inflatable Booms
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Lou, Michael Fang, Houfei |
| Copyright Year | 2001 |
| Abstract | Development and infusion of breakthrough technologies is needed to enable better, faster and cheaper space missions to be flown in the future. One of these technologies, the space inflatable structures, is currently receiving much attention. The use of space inflatable structures can potentially revolutionize the architecture and design of many large, lightweight space systems that must have extremely high packing efficiency at launch and be reliably deployed in space. Examples of these systems include sunshields, solar arrays, solar sails, telescopes, concentrators, and space radar antennae. To facilitate effective designs of these space inflatable systems, the behaviors of their fundamental, building-block structural elements, the inflatable booms, need to be thoroughly characterized and understood. This paper presents experimental and analytical study results on different types of space inflatable boom, including the self-rigidizable carpenter-tape-reinforced aluminum laminate booms. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://trs.jpl.nasa.gov/bitstream/handle/2014/18482/99-1970.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=1 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
