AIAA 2002-1498 Stiffness Design of Spring Back Reflectors

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  • Lin Tze Tan
  • Sergio Pellegrino
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The recently developed Spring Back Reflector has low stiffness in the deployed configuration. A general method of stiffening this type of reflector without changing its folding properties is presented. The stiffening is achieved by adding a conical skirt around the edge of the dish; this skirt snaps elastically when the dish is folded. The paper concludes that it is possible to design spring back reflectors that are up to 80 times stiffer and with a deployed fundamental frequency up to 8 times higher than in the original design.

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تاریخ انتشار 2002