@inproceedings{fe32f031960f4b8aaa738dd15cbea583,
title = "Modelling centrifugal membrane deployment of solar sails with the discrete element method",
abstract = "Spin-stabilized solar sails have been extensively studied in recent years. In this paper, a DEM-based approach is proposed for dynamic analysis of the centrifugal deployment of solar sails. In order to validate the proposed approach, the deployment of a small-scale solar sail similar to {"}IKAROS{"} is studied. The membrane is discretised into a number of particles, with no physical contact between them. Non-contact interaction is introduced to model in-plane stiffness of the membrane. In order to improve the accuracy, additional forces are applied to the mass particles to model buckling strength, crease stiffness, air drag and damping. The predicted results of the membrane deployment are compared with the experimental data and numerical results in the literature.",
keywords = "DEM, Membrane deployment, Solar sail",
author = "Zixuan Xu and Daxu Zhang and Wujun Chen and Fujun Peng",
year = "2015",
language = "英语",
series = "Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Particle-Based Methods - Fundamentals and Applications, PARTICLES 2015",
publisher = "International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering",
pages = "602--611",
editor = "Eugenio Onate and D.R.J. Owen and T. Zohdi and M. Bischoff and P. Wriggers",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Particle-Based Methods - Fundamentals and Applications, PARTICLES 2015",
note = "4th International Conference on Particle-Based Methods, PARTICLES 2015 ; Conference date: 28-09-2015 Through 30-09-2015",
}