COMPOSITE MATERIALS IN DEPLOYABLE SPACE （复合材料在部署空间）.pdfVIP

16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPOSITE MATERIALS COMPOSITE MATERIALS IN DEPLOYABLE SPACE STRUCTURES [Thomas W. Murphey]* and Jeffry S. Welsh* *Air Force Research Laboratory Keywords: deployable structures, truss, hinge, large elastic strain accommodate flattening, rolling and origami-like 1 Introduction folding of the global structure. Several approaches There is a persistent cost driven endeavor to have been investigated to achieve increased material assemble greater mission capabilities (sensors, strains for more compact packaging. Historically, communications, power, etc.) onto smaller and moderate to low modulus materials that are capable lighter weight spacecraft. The U.S. Operationally of very high tensile and compressive stresses have Responsive Space program advocates this trend for been used so that large strains are possible. micro-satellites. At the same time, the laws of Examples are S2 glass and IM7 fiber based physics drive apertures to be of greater area. For composites. More recently, fiber reinforced material example, solar radiation has a fixed energy flux that systems with heat softenable resins (called dictates the size of solar power arrays and radio rigidizable) have also been developed. In both frequency