A new direction for the national laboratories is to assist US business with research and development, primarily through cooperative research and development agreements (CRADAs). Technology transfer to the private sector has been very successful as over 200 CRADAs are in place at Sandia. Because of these cooperative efforts, technology has evolved into some new areas not commonly associated with the former mission of the national laboratories. An example of this is the analysis of fabric structures. Explicit analyses and expertise in constructing parachutes led to the development of a next generation automobile airbag; which led to the construction, testing, and analysis of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mars Environmental Survey Lander; and finally led to the development of CAD based custom garment designs using 3D scanned images of the human body. The structural analysis of these fabric structures is described as well as a more traditional example Sandia with the test/analysis correlation of the impact of a weapon container.
Airbags to Martian Landers: Analyses at Sandia National Laboratories
1994
15 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Space Safety , Transportation Safety , Road Transportation , Engineered Safety Systems , Automobiles , Computer Aided Design , Design , Exploration , Mars Planet , Parachutes , Protective Clothing , Safety Engineering , Shock Absorbers , Space Vehicles , Technology Transfer , Aerospace safety , Air bags , EDB/420200 , EDB/420202
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