Recent advances in structural modeling of parachute dynamics

16th AIAA Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Technology Conference and Seminar

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Gupta, Manish ^a   Xu, Zhenlong ^a   Zhang, Wenqing ^a   Accorsi, Michael ^a   Leonard, John ^a   Benney, Richard ^b   Stein, Keith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b US Army Soldier Systems Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; PNEUMATIC ACTUATORS; PNEUMATIC EQUIPMENT;

APPLICATION PROBLEMS; CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONS; CONTROL OPERATIONS; GEOMETRICALLY NONLINEAR; PARACHUTE DYNAMICS; PNEUMATIC MUSCLE ACTUATORS; STRUCTURAL MODELING; THEORETICAL FORMULATION;

PARACHUTES;

EID: 85087600896     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2001-2030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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