Scalable Solar-Sail Subsystem Design Concept

Murphy, David M.; Murphey, Thomas W.; Gierow, Paul A.

doi:10.2514/2.3975

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“…It measures the mass of the sail per unit surface area, and it is expected that technological developments [28] should enable sails of 10 g/m 2 in the near future. Ultra-thin (around 2 μm of thickness) sails are expected in the mid-to far-term timeframe [31] and can lead, for large sails, to sail loadings of the order of 5 g/m 2 .…”

Section: Hybrid Sail and Sepmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trajectory and Spacecraft Design for a Pole-Sitter Mission

Ceriotti

Heiligers

McInnes

2014

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

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Section: Hybrid Sail and Sepmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trajectory and Spacecraft Design for a Pole-Sitter Mission

Ceriotti

Heiligers

McInnes

2014

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

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“…It measures the mass of the sail per unit surface area, and it is expected that technological developments [28] should enable sails of 10 g/m 2 in the near future. Ultra-thin (around 2 μm of thickness) sails are expected in the mid-to far-term timeframe [30] and can lead, for large sails, to sail loadings of the order of 5 g/m 2 .…”

Section: Hybrid Sail and Sepmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design and Trade-offs of a Pole-Sitter Mission

Ceriotti

Heiligers

McInnes

2014

Advances in Solar Sailing

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“…Over the past decade, the research and application of inflatable scaled models mainly emphasize the spatial inflatable structures such as solar panels and antennas. Lienard et al [9][10][11][12][13][14] showed that the scaled-model test guided by similarity criteria of constant thickness inflatable membrane for pneumatic structure can accurately simulate the structural response of the weightlessness space. Due to above research objects are isotropic, the constitutive model of linear elastic nonwoven fabric material is mature, and influence of structural size effect is not obvious.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Study on the Design and Size Effect of Scaled Model for Inflated Fabric Membrane

Zhou¹,

Jie-hong²

2017

Proceedings of the 2017 2nd International Conference on Materials Science, Machinery and Energy Engineering (MSMEE 2017)

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Inflatable fabric membrane has been typically used in aeronautics and astronautics, large-scale construction and other fields because of its advantages: light weight, low transportation costs, and ease of deployment and storage. However, a natural challenge is the accurate characterization of the mechanical properties of the materials such as the airbag, subjected to the anisotropy of the membrane, the interaction between the fabric and the inflation pressure. In this paper, to estimate the effective elastic constant, the biaxial tensile tests of fabric film were performed by considering the effect of inflation pressure, this and specimen size on the elastic constants was obtained. Based on the similitude theory, the reduction ratio of inflatable fabric is deduced, and the irreducible factor is analysed. The validity of theoretical derivation is verified by numerical simulation and experiment of woven airbeams loaded in four-point bending. The error of scaled model is evaluated, which provides an effective technique for large-scale inflatable structure test. Abundant research results have been achieved in the test method of fabric membrane.

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Scalable Solar-Sail Subsystem Design Concept

Cited by 82 publications

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Trajectory and Spacecraft Design for a Pole-Sitter Mission

Trajectory and Spacecraft Design for a Pole-Sitter Mission

Design and Trade-offs of a Pole-Sitter Mission

Study on the Design and Size Effect of Scaled Model for Inflated Fabric Membrane

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