The conceptual design of a rocket-powered, two-stage fully reusable launch vehicle has been performed as a part of NASA's Advanced Manned Launch System (AMLS) study. This paper summarizes the structural design and loads analysis of this two-stage fully reusable launch vehicle. The method used to determine the structural weights consists of generating a finite-element model for each vehicle, selecting a set of critical loading conditions, determining the loads on the model caused by those conditions, determining the model response and changing the sizes of individual elements to obtain a safe structure. The integrated loads on the two-stage vehicle were obtained from a three-degrees-of-freedom trajectory analysis.
Structural and loads analysis of a two-stage fully reusable Advanced Manned Launch System
AIAA, USAF, NASA, and OAI, Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization
1992-09-01
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English
Structural and Loads Analysis of a Two-Stage Reusable Manned Launch System
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