A2100 COMMERCIAL SATELLITES INTEGRATED （A2100商业卫星综合）.pdf

A2100 COMMERCIAL SATELLITES INTEGRATED MECHANICAL ANALYSIS Vince M. Stephens Staff Mechanical Engineer Lockheed Martin Missiles Space Sunnyvale, California 1997 MSC Aerospace Users Conference Newport Beach, California November 17-20, 1997 ABSTRACT The commercial satellite industry drive towards reducing delivery time requires that mechanical analyses implement production line type methodologies. Analysis of multiple satellites is facilitated by augmenting MSC/NASTRAN with software that automates FEM checkout, sorts multiple load case stresses/forces, prepares reduced coupled loads models, and facilitates pre-environmental test analyses. 1 INTRODUCTION MSC/NASTRAN is used as a primary tool for the mechanical analysis of multiple commercial spacecraft designated as the A2100 family of communication satellites. Short order -to-shipdurations have driven the analysis effort to become streamlined and efficient. MSC/NASTRAN is used for satellite and component level static/dynamic analyses, results are input to a suite of proprietary post-processing programs that efficiently automate manipulating and reducing data for presentation, subsequent processing (e.g. internal loads for hand calculations), and environmental testing. Integration of the MSC/NASTRAN finite element model (FEM) and results in an efficient manner with design, analysis, and testing tasks is