Undesired equilibria of self-deploying pneumatic envelopes

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 2437-2447

  Baginski, Frank E ^a   Schur, Willi W ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOAD TENDONS; SELF-DEPLOYING STRUCTURES; SPACE STRUCTURES; ZERO-PRESSURE NATURAL SHAPE (ZPNS);

BUOYANCY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELASTIC MODULI; POISSON RATIO; RELIABILITY; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACECRAFT; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL LOADS; TENDONS; THIN FILMS;

PNEUMATIC MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT;

EID: 16244364018     PISSN: 02734508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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