Hypervelocity impact on flexible curable composites and pure fabric layer bumpers for inflatable space structures

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Demands for large space structures recently increased in accordance with the growth of space applications for micro-gravity research and space travel. To satisfy growing demand, inflatable structures have been developed. For hypervelocity impact protection from micrometeoroid and orbital debris with enough structural flexibility to be applied to an inflatable space structure, a Multi-shock shield was developed and adopted. However, the multi-layered ceramic fabric bumper of the Multi-shock shield is inferior to the bumper of the conventional stuffed Whipple shield with respect to its hypervelocity impact protection performance. In this study, the applicability of directly curable carbon, Zylon and Twaron composites as a front bumper of the hypervelocity impact shield was examined through 22 experiments involving a pure fabric layer bumper. Through the experiments, it was found that directly curable composites can be more effectively used as a bumper of hypervelocity shield than pure fabric layers. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
Issue Date
2017-09
Language
English
Article Type
Article
Keywords

ENVIRONMENT; STATION

Citation

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES, v.176, pp.1061 - 1072

ISSN
0263-8223
DOI
10.1016/j.compstruct.2017.06.035
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10203/225320
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AE-Journal Papers(저널논문)
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