Finite element analysis about solar sail

Author

Sheng, Z.Y. ; Zheng, Jin Jin ; Zhou, H.J. ; Huang, W.H. ; Sheng, L.G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Precise Machinery & Precise Instrum., Univ. of Sci. & Technol. of China, Hefei

fYear

2008

fDate

20-23 June 2008

Firstpage

1691

Lastpage

1696

Abstract

The article is a structural analysis about a new space probe-solar sail. The model was designed and generated by our group, and it has been produced and deployed successfully on ground. The loads on outer space was introduced and expressed with equation. As a special state, the largest load around earth was used to analyze the model by the finite element method. We got some results about strain and stress, after setting some initial parameters. Compared with the results in the literature, the results presented here were credible. So our model, method and parameters can be used in solar sail analysis.

Keywords

deformation; finite element analysis; solar powered vehicles; space vehicle power plants; space vehicles; stress analysis; finite element analysis; solar sail; space probe; strain; stress; structural analysis; Acceleration; Belts; Biomembranes; Containers; Finite element methods; NASA; Space exploration; Space technology; Space vehicles; Temperature; FEM; solar sail;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Automation, 2008. ICIA 2008. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Changsha

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2183-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2184-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICINFA.2008.4608277

Filename

4608277