New concepts in deployable beam structures
Abstract
The design of deployable structures involves a complicated tradeoff of packaging efficiency, the overall mechanism associated with deploying and latching beam joints, and the requirements and complexity of the beam deployer/repacker. Three longeron deployable beams, controllable geometry beams, and hybrid deployable/erectable beam concepts are evaluated.
- Publication:
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In its Large Space Antenna Systems Technol
- Pub Date:
- April 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985lsas.rept..331R
- Keywords:
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- Beams;
- Deployment;
- Large Space Structures;
- Space Erectable Structures;
- Structural Engineering;
- Actuators;
- Hinges;
- Joints (Junctions);
- Loads (Forces);
- Longerons;
- Trusses;
- Launch Vehicles and Space Vehicles