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  title info:
    title: Structural design of a lunar lander spacecraft for the Texas space grant regolith oxygen production experiment
  name:
    name part: Baccus, Ronald Kregg.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1996
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: remote
    extent: viii, 79 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: $450,000 more expensive than an aluminum structure, it is
  abstract: also 41% lighter. This weight savings made it possible to
  abstract: and the oxygen plant operation constraints resulted in a
  abstract: being developed by the Texas Space Grant Consortium to
  abstract: burns, and lunar landing were the primary load cases that
  abstract: chances for mission success.
  abstract: configuration was selected since it offered the greatest
  abstract: dynamic requirements. Numerous iteration cycles were
  abstract: element models subjected to static and dynamic mission loads.
  abstract: for the lander was a triangular truss structure constructed
  abstract: lightweight structure. The required diameter and thickness
  abstract: load-carrying propellant tanks, and a retractable ramp for
  abstract: meet the weight requirements of the mission and increase the
  abstract: obtained. A parametric cost analysis of this design showed
  abstract: of each strut in the truss was determined with two finite
  abstract: of graphite-epoxy struts and titanium ball joints. This
  abstract: payload deployment. The structural configuration selected
  abstract: performed with these loads before a converged solution was
  abstract: sized the structure. Modal and random vibration analyses
  abstract: Static loads arising from launch accelerations, main engine
  abstract: stiffness per unit weight, resulting in an efficient and
  abstract: structural design for the lunar lander spacecraft currently
  abstract: surface of the moon. An analysis of the mission requirements
  abstract: that while the graphite-epoxy structure is approximately
  abstract: The focus of this research is the determination of a
  abstract: transport a regolith oxygen production experiment to the
  abstract: vehicle configuration featuring a tensile thrust structure,
  abstract: were also performed to verify that the structure met all
  note: by Ronald Kregg Baccus.
  note: "Major subject: Mechanical Engineering".
  note: Vita.
  note: Also available online.
  note: Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
  note: M.S. Texas A&M University 1996.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Major mechanical engineering
  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1996-THESIS-B33
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      url: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1996-THESIS-B33
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    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 970127
    record change date: 20220103134536.0
    record identifier: in00001344518