Prediction of wrinkle amplitudes in square solar sails

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference

Volumn 7, Issue , 2003, Pages 5309-5318

  Wong, Y W ^a   Pellegrino, S ^a   Park, K C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULI; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MEMBRANES; NUMERICAL METHODS; POISSON RATIO; SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT;

SQUARE SOLAR SAILS; UNIFORM ELASTIC SQUARE MEMBRANE; WRINKLE AMPLITUDES;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0042477703     PISSN: 02734508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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