Estimating minimum inflation pressure for inflatable aerodynamic decelerators

20th AIAA Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Brown, Glen J ^a  

^a HDT Engineering Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC DECELERATORS; BALLISTIC COEFFICIENT; DOUBLE-WALLED; GAS MASS; INFLATION PRESSURES; KEY CHARACTERISTICS; TOTAL MASS;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 77958178342     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-2970     Document Type: Conference Paper

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3. Weeks, George E., "Buckling of a Pressurized Toroidal Ring Under Uniform External Loading", NASA TN D-4124, August 1967.
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8. Claude A. Graves, Carlos H. Westhelle, Christopher Madsen, Richard W. Powell, F. Neil Cheatwood, Charles J. Player, Juan R. Cruz, Alicia D. Cianciolo and Glen Brown, "Inflatable Aeroshells as an Alternative Aerodynamic Decelerator", 28th annual AAS Guidance and Control Conference, Breckenridge, Colorado, February 2004. (AAS 05-062).