Prediction of wrinkle amplitudes in square solar sails

44th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Wong, Y W ^a   Pellegrino, S ^a   Park, K C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Colorado   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; ANALYTICAL PREDICTIONS; ASYMMETRIC LOADING; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTATIONS; PRE-STRESSED; SQUARE MEMBRANES; WRINKLE AMPLITUDES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SOLAR RADIATION; SOLAR SAILS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

LOADING;

EID: 84896693178     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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