Highlights ► A new approach is presented for spacecraft breakup fragments simulation. ► Modeling concerns includes: material, velocity vector, shape, internal structure. ► The approach can provide: fragment amount, size, mass, velocity vector. ► Reported fragment distribution of the approach shows good agreement with tests. ► With high model resolution, the approach can provide small debris characteristics.

    Abstract Breakup model is the key area of space debris environment modeling. NASA standard breakup model is currently the most widely used for general-purpose. It is a statistical model found based on space surveillance data and a few ground-based test data. NASA model takes the mass, impact velocity magnitude for input and provides the fragment size, area-to-mass ratio, velocity magnitude distributions for output. A more precise approach for spacecraft disintegration fragment analysis is presented in this paper. This approach is based on hypervelocity impact dynamics and takes the shape, material, internal structure and impact location etc. of spacecraft and impactor, which might greatly affect the fragment distribution, into consideration. The approach is a combination of finite element and particle methods, entitled finite element reconstruction (FER). By reconstructing elements from the particle debris cloud, reliable individual fragments are identified. Fragment distribution is generated with undirected graph conversion and connected component analysis. Ground-based test from literature is introduced for verification. In the simulation satellite targets and impactors are modeled in detail including the shape, material, internal structure and so on. FER output includes the total number of fragments and the mass, size and velocity vector of each fragment. The reported fragment distribution of FER shows good agreement with the test, and has good accuracy for small fragments.


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    Titel :

    Finite element reconstruction approach for on-orbit spacecraft breakup dynamics simulation and fragment analysis


    Beteiligte:
    Zhang, Xiao-tian (Autor:in) / Jia, Guang-hui (Autor:in) / Huang, Hai (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 51 , 3 ; 423-433


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2012-09-14


    Format / Umfang :

    11 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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