Thin-shell deployable reflectors with collapsible stiffeners part 1: Approach

AIAA Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2515-2523

  Tan, Lin Tze ^a,c,d   Pellegrino, Sergio ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Civil Engineering ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REFLECTOR DISH; REFLECTOR STRUCTURES; ULTRATHIN COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; ELASTICITY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 33751205297     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.16320     Document Type: Article

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