Shape or deployable membrane reflectors

Journal of Aerospace Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 73-80

  Lai, C Y ^a   You, Z ^a   Pellegrino, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; FOCUSING; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

COLLAPSIBLE RIB TENSIONED SURFACE (CRTS) REFLECTORS;

ANTENNA REFLECTORS;

EID: 0032121573     PISSN: 08931321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0893-1321(1998)11:3(73)     Document Type: Article

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