Journal
ACTA ASTRONAUTICA
Volume 127, Issue -, Pages 542-552Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2016.06.042
Keywords
Flexible structure; Spinning solar sail; Multi -particle model; Eigenfunction analysis
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- JSPS KAKENHI [JP02604481]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [14J04481] Funding Source: KAKEN
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This study evaluates the transient response of large spinning membrane structures in space especially spinning solar sails by two different methods. A flexible sail membrane is easily deformed when a spacecraft changes its attitude, such as when using thrusters, and the control response including membrane vibration must be estimated in advance of operation. In order to estimate the motion of the membrane, numerical simulations using a multi-particle model (MPM) are conducted, where the membrane is modeled with masses, spring, and dampers. Usually, force propagation is calculated directly in this model and the position and velocity of each particle represent the membrane motion, which is referred to as a continuum analysis in this study. This method is useful for the analysis of membrane vibration because it replaces the complex dynamics with simple equations of motion. However, the computational cost is high and the calculations require a considerable amount of time. This study introduces an eigenfunction analysis to solve this problem. In this method, natural vibration modes and natural frequencies for the entire spacecraft are derived and used for dynamics computation, which reduces the computational cost dramatically compared to the conventional continuum analysis. In this study, the transient response of a spinning solar sail is analyzed using both methods, and the advantages and disadvantages are discussed. It is shown that the eigenfunction analysis provides a suitable method for acquiring approximate solutions in a very low computation time. (C) 2016 IAA. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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