The paper investigates three critical areas in cable-driven rigid-panel solar arrays: First, the variation of deployment and retraction cable tensions due to friction at the hinges; Second, the change in deployment dynamics associated with different deployment histories; Third, the relationship between the level of pre-tension in the closed contact loops and the synchronization of deployment. A small scale model array has been made and tested, and its behavior has been compared to numerical simulations.
Deployment and retraction of a cable-driven solar array: Testing and simulation
1995-05-01
Conference paper
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English
Deployment and Retraction of a Cable-Driven Solar Array: Testing and Simulation
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1995
|Deployment and Retraction of a Cable-Driven Rigid Panel Solar Array
Online Contents | 1996
|Deployment and Retraction of Cable-Driven Rigid Panel Solar Arrays
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1995
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