Parameter Sensitivity and Reliability Analysis for Construction Control of Cable-Net Structure Supporting the Reflector of FAST

Abstract:

Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is supported by cable-net structure, which enables its surface to form a paraboloid in real time under active control. FAST is now entering project construction and implement stage, however there are always a considerable amount of errors existed in practice which would result in the deviation of the structure from its ideal model. Therefore, structural parameter sensitivity analysis was indispensable discussed. In the paper, the variation ranges of structural parameters were rationally determined. Base on local sensitivity analysis and global sensitivity analysis method, Using the finite element model investigated the influence of different structural parameters change on the static behavior, gets the conclusions that the impact of several key design parameters on the tension force of cable-net is large. The results indicate that of all types of the structural parameters, the error of the length of cable plays the most important role, and the global sensitivity analysis indicates that the tension force range of cable-net is -18% to 27%.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 671-674)
• Pages: 529-533
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.671-674.529
• Online since: March 2013
• Authors: Xu Kong, Qi Ming Wang, Chuan Jia Liu, Zhong Yi Zhu
• Keywords: ANSYS, Cable-Net Structure, FAST Engineering, Reliability Analysis, Sensitivity Analysis

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