Quasi-Static Folding and Deployment of Ultrathin Composite Tape-Spring Hinges

Mallikarachchi, Chinthaka; Pellegrino, Sergio

doi:10.2514/1.47321

Cited by 114 publications

(80 citation statements)

References 16 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Thin-walled deployable composite boom (DCB) structures of hinge and lenticular boom varieties are of considerable interest in the aerospace field, with typical examples shown in Figure 1 [1][2][3][4][5][6] .…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Thermal analysis of thin-walled deployable composite boom in simulated space environment

Bai

Shenoi

Xiong

2017

Composite Structures

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper seeks to investigate thermal behaviour of a thin-walled deployable composite boom (DCB) in a space environment using ground thermal-vacuum test and FEA methods. Thermal tests simulating a space environment include three key conditions, namely ultra-high level of vacuum (lower than 10 -5 Pa), heat sink (-180℃) that is realized using black panels with the liquid-nitrogen cooling system and thermal loading that is achieved through infrared lamps. The thermal tests of the DCB under seven typical heat fluxes were conducted to characterize heat transfer mechanisms and to obtain temperature fields. The basic heat transfer methods for the DCB in a space environment were surface radiation, cavity radiation and heat conduction. These led to significant temperature difference and gradient occurring on the irradiated and shadowed parts of the DCB at nighttime and daytime. FE models were established to predict temperature fields and thermally induced deformation. Good correlation was achieved between experimental and numerical results.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Thermal analysis of thin-walled deployable composite boom in simulated space environment

Bai

Shenoi

Xiong

2017

Composite Structures

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…In fact, CLT lacks in accuracy about the bending properties when ultrathin composite structures are involved [12,19,20].…”

Section: Materials and Failure Criteriamentioning

confidence: 99%

Nonlinear buckling and folding analysis of a storable tubular ultrathin boom for nanosatellites

Barbera

Laurenzi

2015

Composite Structures

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this work we investigated the stability behavior and the folding capability of an ultrathin tubular composite boom with C-cross section to be used in nanosatellites applications. A nonlinear buckling analysis was performed using the Riks method, adopting a perturbed finite element model to study the influence of the unavoidable geometrical variations of the boom thickness, arising from the composite manufacturing processes, on the stability behavior of the tubular structure. The effect of several levels of geometrical imperfection on the buckling behavior was analyzed. The minimum coil radius that can be used for a safe storage the boom was determined by quasi-static explicit analysis. The boom folding process was considered as formed by two sequential steps, the flattening and the coiling. The stress fields associated with both steps were investigated.

show abstract

“…Yang, et al [13,14], investigated the folding and deployment of single-layer tape spring hinges and double-layer tape spring hinges under pure bend loading. And the multiobjective optimal design of the double-layer tape-spring hinge is performed by using modified non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis of mechanical properties in bending processes and optimal design of simple tape spring

Zhao

Zhang

et al. 2017

Journal of Modeling in Mechanics and Materials

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Abstract:Tape spring is straight, thin-walled, elastic strip with curved cross-section, which can replace traditional hinges by allowing for folding elastically and unfolded releasing stored energy with fewer component parts. This work is devoted to the properties of the folding and deployment of simple tape spring by numerical simulation and experiment method. Firstly, the folding process of tape spring is experimentally investigated using a specially designed test rig and verified by using nonlinear finite element ABAQUS/Standard solver. Then the moment-rotation relationships for symmetric bending are studied, the effects of subtended angle of section, total tape spring length, thickness and cross section radius on the performance of tape spring are investigated. Furthermore, the optimal model of tape spring structure design is established based on the response surface methodology (RSM) and parameter's effective analysis, which aims at maximum strain energy during the tapespring hinge deployment and subjects to allowable stress of tape spring. And the interior point algorithm is used to solve the optimal model. The optimal results are of great importance to the design of novel deployable structures with high stability, reliability and lightweight.

show abstract

Quasi-Static Folding and Deployment of Ultrathin Composite Tape-Spring Hinges

Cited by 114 publications

References 16 publications

Thermal analysis of thin-walled deployable composite boom in simulated space environment

Thermal analysis of thin-walled deployable composite boom in simulated space environment

Nonlinear buckling and folding analysis of a storable tubular ultrathin boom for nanosatellites

Analysis of mechanical properties in bending processes and optimal design of simple tape spring

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About