Date of Award

Spring 1985

Document Type

Thesis

Department

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Program/Concentration

Engineering Mechanics

Committee Director

Earl A. Thorton

Committee Member

Chuh Mei

Committee Member

Jean Hou

Call Number for Print

Special Collections; LD4331.E57M33

Abstract

The determination of structural shadowing is described. The computation of environmental heat loads for slender structural members in earth orbit is described, and two methods for finite element thermal analysis are described . The effects of self-shadowing on the thermal structural behavior of single truss members and two different trusses are presented. In each case the shadowing produces a noticeable effect on the temperature distributions on truss members, and on the deformations of the trusses.

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DOI

10.25777/sa55-a411

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