Analyses of cable–membrane structure combined with deployable truss
✍ Scribed by Kazuhide Ando; Jin Mitsugi; Yumi Senbokuya
- Book ID
- 104269139
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 594 KB
- Volume
- 74
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0045-7949
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✦ Synopsis
The authors have been developing a large deployable mesh re¯ector for advanced satellite communication. This large re¯ector consists of a mesh membrane surface and a deployable truss structure. In this paper, analysis methods for a large deployable mesh re¯ector structure are introduced, and the theoretical basis for the analysis is explained. By using those analysis methods, we manufactured prototype re¯ector modules and carried out an experiment on them. The validity of the analysis methods were veri®ed from the results of the analyses and experiments. The design procedure of mesh re¯ector surface and the eect of the mesh surface tension on the truss deployment are discussed.