Lightweight satellite structures are usually of sandwich type where the core is formed of a honeycomb-like structure made of aluminium foil. The outer facesheets are made of aluminium and serve as a ground reference plane. Carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP), however, is a composite material having an electrical conductivity that is about 2000 times lower than the conductivity of aluminium. Since such a material is not suitable to carry electrical current of high value a network of metal sheets (grounding rails) connects all equipment mounted on the satellite structure. This paper describes an evaluation whether the classical grounding rail system can be replaced by a network of round wires while the high-frequency portion of the current is flowing along the CFRP sheet.


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    Title :

    Advanced grounding methods in the presence of carbon fibre reinforced plastic structures


    Contributors:
    Leininger, M. (author) / Thurecht, F. (author) / Pfeiffer, E. (author) / Ruddle, A. (author)


    Publication date :

    2012-05-01


    Size :

    266104 byte



    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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