Vacuum airships fueled by renewable energy would reduce reliance on fossil fuel-based modes of transport, lessen the need for limited and non-renewable lifting gases, and can be achieved using novel manufacturing techniques for ultra-light, discrete lattice material systems.The Discrete Lattice Material Vacuum Airships (DLMVA) system combines novel material science and manufacturing technologies for new modes of mass transportation, resulting in a disruptive approach to reduce national resource consumption and emissions. Through the use of high performance building block elements, modular, scalable and extensible aircraft can be rapidly assembled into positive net-buoyancy systems utilizing a vacuum instead of a lifting gas. By using architected lattice material principles, show that lattice materials can overcome stability limitations of previous vacuum balloon designs. Additionally, we show that lattice vacuum balloons are strength limited, rather than stability limited. As a result,airborne infrastructure can be developed to support the proliferation of modern systems such as e-commerce and distributed communications, while simultaneously reducing dependence on finite, non-renewable, emission-heavy resources.


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    Title :

    Discrete Lattice Material Vacuum Airship


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition ; 2019 ; San Diego, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    2019-01-07


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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