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  • ballistic Limit Equation for equipment placed behind satellite structure walls
    International Journal of Impact Engineering, 2008
    Co-Authors: Frank K Schafer, S. Ryan, M Lambert, Robin Putzar
    Abstract:

    Abstract A new ballistic Limit Equation has been developed for the case of a Whipple shield configuration or a sandwich panel with honeycomb core placed in front of a backwall. This “triple plate” ballistic Limit Equation considers explicitly the thicknesses, materials and spacings of each of the three plates. The third plate, i.e., the backwall, represents the cover plate or external wall of the equipment that is placed behind the satellite structure wall. The ballistic Limit Equation has been calibrated with experimental results obtained from hypervelocity impact tests on satellite equipment that was placed behind typical satellite structure walls. The equipment considered were fuel and heat pipes, pressure vessels, electronic boxes, harness, and batteries, all representative of real satellite equipment. The new Equation was applied to prove that if the inherent protection capability of satellite equipment against hypervelocity impacts is explicitly considered in a ballistic Limit Equation, the critical projectile diameters for failure of such equipment are raised considerably compared to the case where equipment is assumed to fail as soon as the structure wall that protects it is perforated.

  • a ballistic Limit Equation for hypervelocity impacts on composite honeycomb sandwich panel satellite structures
    Advances in Space Research, 2008
    Co-Authors: S. Ryan, F Schaefer, R Destefanis, M Lambert
    Abstract:

    During a recent experimental test campaign performed in the framework of ESA Contract 16721, the ballistic performance of multiple satellite-representative Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic (CFRP)/Aluminium honeycomb sandwich panel structural configurations (GOCE, Radarsat-2, Herschel/Planck, BeppoSax) was investigated using the two-stage light-gas guns at EMI. The experimental results were used to develop and validate a new empirical Ballistic Limit Equation (BLE), which was derived from an existing Whipple-shield BLE. This new BLE provided a good level of accuracy in predicting the ballistic performance of stand-alone sandwich panel structures. Additionally, the Equation is capable of predicting the ballistic Limit of a thin Al plate located at a standoff behind the sandwich panel structure. This thin plate is the representative of internal satellite systems, e.g. an Al electronic box cover, a wall of a metallic vessel, etc. Good agreement was achieved with both the experimental test campaign results and additional test data from the literature for the vast majority of set-ups investigated. For some experiments, the ballistic Limit was conservatively predicted, a result attributed to shortcomings in correctly accounting for the presence of high surface density multi-layer insulation on the outer facesheet. Four existing BLEs commonly applied for application with stand-alone sandwich panels were reviewed using the new impact test data. It was found that a number of these common approaches provided non-conservative predictions for sandwich panels with CFRP facesheets.

S. Ryan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • ballistic Limit Equation for equipment placed behind satellite structure walls
    International Journal of Impact Engineering, 2008
    Co-Authors: Frank K Schafer, S. Ryan, M Lambert, Robin Putzar
    Abstract:

    Abstract A new ballistic Limit Equation has been developed for the case of a Whipple shield configuration or a sandwich panel with honeycomb core placed in front of a backwall. This “triple plate” ballistic Limit Equation considers explicitly the thicknesses, materials and spacings of each of the three plates. The third plate, i.e., the backwall, represents the cover plate or external wall of the equipment that is placed behind the satellite structure wall. The ballistic Limit Equation has been calibrated with experimental results obtained from hypervelocity impact tests on satellite equipment that was placed behind typical satellite structure walls. The equipment considered were fuel and heat pipes, pressure vessels, electronic boxes, harness, and batteries, all representative of real satellite equipment. The new Equation was applied to prove that if the inherent protection capability of satellite equipment against hypervelocity impacts is explicitly considered in a ballistic Limit Equation, the critical projectile diameters for failure of such equipment are raised considerably compared to the case where equipment is assumed to fail as soon as the structure wall that protects it is perforated.

  • a ballistic Limit Equation for hypervelocity impacts on composite honeycomb sandwich panel satellite structures
    Advances in Space Research, 2008
    Co-Authors: S. Ryan, F Schaefer, R Destefanis, M Lambert
    Abstract:

    During a recent experimental test campaign performed in the framework of ESA Contract 16721, the ballistic performance of multiple satellite-representative Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic (CFRP)/Aluminium honeycomb sandwich panel structural configurations (GOCE, Radarsat-2, Herschel/Planck, BeppoSax) was investigated using the two-stage light-gas guns at EMI. The experimental results were used to develop and validate a new empirical Ballistic Limit Equation (BLE), which was derived from an existing Whipple-shield BLE. This new BLE provided a good level of accuracy in predicting the ballistic performance of stand-alone sandwich panel structures. Additionally, the Equation is capable of predicting the ballistic Limit of a thin Al plate located at a standoff behind the sandwich panel structure. This thin plate is the representative of internal satellite systems, e.g. an Al electronic box cover, a wall of a metallic vessel, etc. Good agreement was achieved with both the experimental test campaign results and additional test data from the literature for the vast majority of set-ups investigated. For some experiments, the ballistic Limit was conservatively predicted, a result attributed to shortcomings in correctly accounting for the presence of high surface density multi-layer insulation on the outer facesheet. Four existing BLEs commonly applied for application with stand-alone sandwich panels were reviewed using the new impact test data. It was found that a number of these common approaches provided non-conservative predictions for sandwich panels with CFRP facesheets.

  • A ballistic Limit Equation for hypervelocity impacts on CFRP Al H/C satellite structures
    2006
    Co-Authors: S. Ryan
    Abstract:

    Composite sandwich panels consisting of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic facesheets bonded to Aluminum honeycomb cores (CFRP Al H/C SP) are amongst the most commonly used structures for satellites due to their relative low mass and high thermal and mechanical stability. To assess the threat of micrometeoroid/orbital debris (M/OD) on a satellite mission, Equations which define the Limits of structural perforation in terms of impactor mass, velocity and angle are required. This type of Equation is referred to as a Ballistic Limit Equation (BLE). There is presently no validated BLE existing for application in the risk assessment of CFRP Al H/C SP structures.

Juan Soler - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • High-Field Limit for the Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck System
    Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 2001
    Co-Authors: Juan Nieto, Frédéric Poupaud, Juan Soler
    Abstract:

    This paper is concerned with the analysis of the stability of the Vlasov-PoissonFokker-Planck system with respect to the physical constants. If the scaled thermal mean free path converges to zero and the scaled thermal velocity remains constant, then a hyperbolic Limit or equivalently a high-field Limit Equation is obtained for the mass density. The passage to the Limit as well as the existence and uniqueness of solutions of the Limit Equation in L 1 , global or local in time, are analyzed according to the electrostatic or gravitational character of the field and to the space dimension. In the one-dimensional case a new concept of global solution is introduced. For the gravitational field this concept is shown to be equivalent to the concept of entropy solutions of hyperbolic systems of conservation laws.

Zhitao Zhang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.