Design and Manufacture of Double-Ring Deployable Truss

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To improve stiffness and strength of the deployable antenna truss and to keep the total weight and volume from increasing as caliber increases, this paper presents a new kind of deployable antenna truss with double-ring composed of hexahedrons. Numerical simulation was made by self-programming software and a scaled model of 4.2-meter diameter was designed and manufactured, which demonstrate the developability of double-ring deployable antenna truss. In addition, frequency analysis and experiment was taken to make sure of stiffness of the truss.

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September 2012

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