During the 30-year lifetime of the Space Station, NASA is concerned that a large piece of orbital debris could strike one of the inhabited or laboratory modules. The modules are basically cylindrical pressure vessels, 4.3 meters in diameter and 9.1 meters long, made of AI 2219-T87. There is a potent
Critical response of shielded plates subjected to hypervelocity impact
β Scribed by Y.C. Angel; J.P. Smith
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 628 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0734-743X
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