In developing a flexible body spacecraft simulation for the Launch Abort System of the Orion vehicle, when a rapid mass depletion takes place, the dynamics problem with time varying eigenmodes had to be addressed. Three different techniques were implemented, with different trade-offs made between performance and fidelity. A number of technical issues had to be solved in the process. This paper covers the background of the variable mass flexibility problem, the three approaches to simulating it, and the technical issues that were solved in formulating and implementing them.
Mode Selection Techniques in Variable Mass Flexible Body Modeling
2010 AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies (M and ST) Conference ; 2010 ; Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2010-01-01
Conference paper
No indication
English
Mode Selection Techniques in Variable Mass Flexible Body Modeling
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2010
|Dynamics of a Variable-Mass, Flexible-Body System
AIAA | 2000
|Modeling and Simulation of Variable Mass, Flexible Structures
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2009
|