Stiffness scaling for solid-cloth parachutes

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 631-638

  Johari, H ^a   Desabrais, K J ^a,b  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DAMPING; ELASTIC MODULI; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POISSON RATIO; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STIFFNESS; WIND TUNNELS;

FROUDE NUMBER; SOLID CLOTH PARACHUTES; STIFFNESS INDEX; WATER TUNNEL MODELS;

PARACHUTES;

EID: 0041379733     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3166     Document Type: Article

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