Deployment of Bistable Self-Deployable Tape Spring Booms Using a Gravity Offloading System
Publication: Journal of Aerospace Engineering
Volume 30, Issue 4
Abstract
Bistable tape springs are suitable as deployable structures thanks to their high packaging ratio, self-deployment ability, low cost, light weight, and stiffness. A deployable booms assembly composed of four 1-m long bistable glass fiber tape springs was designed for the electromagnetically clean 3U CubeSat Small Explorer for Advanced Missions (SEAM). The aim of the present study was to investigate the deployment dynamics and reliability of the SEAM boom design after long-term stowage using onground experiments and simulations. A gravity offloading system (GOLS) was built and used for the onground deployment experiments. Two booms assemblies were produced and tested: a prototype and an engineering qualification model (EQM). The prototype assembly was deployed in a GOLS with small height, whereas the EQM was deployed in a GOLS with tall height to minimize the effects of the GOLS. A simple analytical model was developed to predict the deployment dynamics and to assess the effects of the GOLS and the combined effects of friction, viscoelastic relaxation, and other factors that act to decrease the deployment force. Experiments and simulations of the deployment dynamics indicate significant viscoelastic energy relaxation phenomena, which depend on the coiled radius and stowage time. In combination with friction effects, these viscoelastic effects decreased the deployment speed and the end-of-deployment shock vibrations.
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Acknowledgments
The research is funded by the European Union Seventh Framework Program under grant agreement no 607197. The authors thank Jakob Ekelöw for design and manufacturing of the bistable tape springs and Anton Shipsha and Robert Jansson for improving the manufacturing process. Authors also would like to acknowledge researcher Dr. Ulf Carlsson for his help with the deployment experiments. Special thanks go to Dr. Thomas W. Murphey for the valuable comments on the design of KTH’s bistable tape spring booms.
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Volume 30 • Issue 4 • July 2017
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Received: Mar 29, 2016
Accepted: Sep 21, 2016
Published ahead of print: Jan 30, 2017
Published online: Jan 31, 2017
Discussion open until: Jun 30, 2017
Published in print: Jul 1, 2017
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