Multicriterion preliminary design of a tetrahedral truss platform

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 410-415

  Wu, K Chauncey ^a   Lake, Mark S ^a,b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b AIAA ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; CURVE FITTING; ESTIMATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIALS; SPACECRAFT; TRUSSES;

PARETO OPTIMAL DESIGNS; TAGUCHI METHODS; TETRAHEDRAL TRUSS PLATFORM;

SPACE PLATFORMS;

EID: 0030145590     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.26775     Document Type: Article

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