Structural modeling of parachute dynamics

AIAA journal

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 139-146

  Accorsi, Michael ^a   Leonard, John ^a   Benney, Richard ^b   Stein, Keith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b US Army Soldier Biol/Chem C   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STIFFNESS MATRIX; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

PARACHUTE DYNAMICS;

PARACHUTES;

EID: 0033640072     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.934     Document Type: Article

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