Staged microgravity deployment of a pressurizing scale-model spacecraft

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 534-542

  Campbell, Jennie E ^a,b   Smith, Suzanne Weaver ^a,b   Main, J A ^a,b   Kearns, Justin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRAVITATION; INFLATABLE STRUCTURES; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; MOTION COMPENSATION; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; PRESSURIZATION; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; STRUTS; TUBULAR STEEL STRUCTURES;

INFLATING TUBES; INTERNAL PRESSURE; MICROGRAVITY ENVIRONMENT; STRAIN ENERGY;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 4344685093     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.10603     Document Type: Conference Paper

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