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Contents Spacecrafts:Launch Vehicles:Structural Dynamics & Control:TEC-EDP Spacecraft structuresTerms of ReferenceDuties of the Structures sectionTechnology areas Antenna structuresComposite structuresFracture control / Damage toleranceInflatable structures for space applicationsMeteoroid and debris shieldingStructural verification of manned payloadsStructural design and analysis Configuration studiesStructural AnalysisProject support Project support activitiesServices EventsContact us
| | | | | | | Multibody Analysis Activities
The Structures Section performs detailed analyses involving flexible bodies with time-varying characteristics and control algorithms. The software programs used are DCAP (based on a ‘fast’, ‘effective’ and ‘symbolic’ formulation), SIMPACK and SAMCEF Mecano.
Several Multibody Dynamics Activities have been performed by the Structures Section in support of numerous projects:
Spacecrafts:
- modelling unconventional S/C dynamics, including orbital environment disturbances
- control laws, including sensors and actuation dynamics
- coupled system frequencies and time responses
- docking phase analysis
| | | Launch Vehicle during lift off phase |
Launch Vehicles:
- non-linear time dynamic simulations for flexible bodies with time varying characteristics
- atmospheric environment including external disturbance
- launch vehicle flight dynamics-control interaction (directly imported into Matlab)
- frequency domain analysis
- multiple nozzles dynamics capabilities
- local analyses (gust response, lift off, multi-payload separations)
- collision avoidance
- data recovery procedure
| | | Flywheel application |
Structural Dynamics & Control:
- modelling complex devices and mechanisms
- control design
- coupled system frequencies and time responses
- modelling laboratory demonstrator dynamics and control
Last update: 19 August 2009 | |
| | Conference papers Variable mass and Simulink I/F (pdf)Data Recovery Procedure (pdf)Related site DCAP
Thales Alenia Space ItalySAMCEF Mecano
SamtechSIMPACK
INTECESA Workshop 1st ESA Workshop on Multibody Dynamics for Space Applications
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