Publication Date:
2019-06-27
Description:
Actuators for control and articulation aboard Mariner spacecraft have employed output shaft seals to maintain an internal gaseous atmosphere. On future missions, considerably greater expected lifetimes, temperature ranges, and radiation exposures have led to a need to determine the limitations of the present O-ring output shaft seal and to examine other candidate seals. Seals suited both to dynamic and static sealing were examined for potential use in three specific actuator applications and the following candidate seals were selected: (a) O-ring seal, (b) chevron seal, (c) bellows seal (linear actuator only), (d) magnetic fluid seal (rotary actuators only) and as a backup seal to any of the foregoing, (e) the labyrinth seal.
Keywords:
MACHINE ELEMENTS AND PROCESSES
Type:
NASA-CR-130927
,
JPL-TM-33-587
Format:
application/pdf
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