TY - GEN
T1 - Multidisciplinary modeling approaches and optimization of membrane structures in aerospace applications
AU - Kuhn, Thomas
AU - Baier, Horst
N1 - Funding Information:
Parts of the work presented in chapter III of this paper originate from the study “Very Large Space Antenna Aperture Architecture Trade-Off” founded by the European Space Agency under a Technology Research Program (TRP) contract (ESA ITT ref. AO/1-5037/06/NL/JA). This study has been performed in cooperation with Thales Alenia Space, Toulouse, France. The results of this study can be seen in the executive summary of the study 5.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The importance of flexible membrane structures for use in aerospace applications has grown in the last decades, because of their high potential to mass savings compared to conventional concepts. To reach optimal performance of these kind of structures, such as maximized payload, minimized total mass or good system performance, considerable efforts must be put into multidisciplinary modeling approaches. In particular, membrane deformations have a high impact on the system performance, which makes them the major design driver of membrane structures in aerospace applications. Based on two aerospace examples, these dependencies of membrane deformations on system performance are presented in this paper. These examples are an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) hybrid airship structure and a direct radiating array (DRA) membrane space radar antenna structure.
AB - The importance of flexible membrane structures for use in aerospace applications has grown in the last decades, because of their high potential to mass savings compared to conventional concepts. To reach optimal performance of these kind of structures, such as maximized payload, minimized total mass or good system performance, considerable efforts must be put into multidisciplinary modeling approaches. In particular, membrane deformations have a high impact on the system performance, which makes them the major design driver of membrane structures in aerospace applications. Based on two aerospace examples, these dependencies of membrane deformations on system performance are presented in this paper. These examples are an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) hybrid airship structure and a direct radiating array (DRA) membrane space radar antenna structure.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84880802720
U2 - 10.2514/6.2010-9273
DO - 10.2514/6.2010-9273
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84880802720
SN - 9781600869549
T3 - 13th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference 2010
BT - 13th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference 2010
T2 - 13th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, MAO 2010
Y2 - 13 September 2010 through 15 September 2010
ER -