One of the experiments aboard the NASA Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) consists of a tray of approximately one hundred tensile specimens of several candidate space structure composite materials. During the LDEF flight the materials will be subjected to the space environment and to possible contamination during launch and recovery. Tensile tests of representative samples were made before the LDEF flight to obtain baseline data. Similar tests will be made on control specimens stored on earth for the length of the LDEF flight and on recovered flight specimens. This manual codifies the details of testing, data acquisition, and handling used in obtaining the baseline data so that the same procedures and equipment will be used on the subsequent tests.
Manual for LDEF Tensile Tests
1985
40 pages
Report
No indication
English
Composite Materials , Engineering Materials , Aerospace environments , Composite materials , Contamination , Large space structures , Launching , Life (Durability) , Long duration space flight , Materials handling , Materials recovery , Structural members , Tensile tests , Data acquisition , Mechanical properties , Performance tests , Structural reliability
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