Publication Date:
2019-08-15
Description:
The state of the design art for inflated structures applicable to reentry vehicles is discussed. Included are material properties, calculations of buckling and collapse loads, and calculations of deflections and vibration frequencies. A new theory for the analysis of inflated plates is presented and compared with experiment.
Keywords:
Spacecraft Design, Testing and Performance
Type:
NASA-TN-D-457
,
L-1080
Format:
application/pdf