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The eXTP (enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry) mission is a major project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and China National Space Administration (CNSA) currently performing a phase B study and proposed for a launch in 2027. The eXTP scientific payload envisages a suite of instruments offering unprecedented simultaneous wide-band X-ray timing and polarimetry sensitivity. A large European consortium is contributing to the eXTP study and it is expected to provide key hardware elements, including the Large Area Detector (LAD) composed of 40 modules for a total effective area of 3.0 m2 at 6.0 keV. In this paper, we describe the preliminary study that led to the design solutions adopted for the most important thermo-mechanical drivers of the LAD Module, which have been elaborated and used for the demonstration of compliance to the system requirements at spacecraft level. We report in particular the mechanical design for the Module and its components, the thermal analysis for each range temperature of the worst cases (coldest case) with the evaluation of the thermoelastic deformation of a reduced module and the results of a campaign of static and dynamic finite element analysis of a simplified parametric model with an accurate mesh processing and the preliminary optimization of the critical components.
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