Cleft formation in pumpkin balloons

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2070-2081

  Baginski, Frank E ^a   Brakke, Kenneth A ^b   Schur, Willi W ^c  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Balloons; Compliant structures; Stability analysis; Wrinkling in membranes

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTORTION (WAVES); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURIZATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

COMPLIANT STRUCTURES; PUMPKIN BALLOONS; STABILITY ANALYSIS; ULTRA LONG DURATION BALLOON; WRINKLING IN MEMBRANES;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 33745092785     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.04.104     Document Type: Article

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