TY - GEN
T1 - Compact telescopic morphing lattice boom
AU - McHale, Ciarán
AU - Telford, Robert
AU - Weaver, Paul M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 ASME
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This paper reports on the design and manufacture of a compact telescopic morphing lattice (CTML) space boom. This boom stows within a 1U CubeSat volume and weighs only 0.475kg. Once deployed, the CTML has a total length of 2m, 20 times the stowed height. The device consists of three multi-stable cylindrical composite lattices connected in series. To improve packaging efficiency, these lattices nest inside one another in the stowed configuration. The morphing lattice is a structure that uses prestress and lamina orientation to seamlessly morph from a short stowed state to a long deployed state. By tailoring the manufacturing parameters, the lattices in the boom have been designed to maximize the deployment force and to be self-deploying. Therefore, the CTML only requires a small, lightweight mechanism to regulate the deployment speed. The deployment speed regulator can also potentially retract the boom back to the stowed state, facilitating reconfigurability.
AB - This paper reports on the design and manufacture of a compact telescopic morphing lattice (CTML) space boom. This boom stows within a 1U CubeSat volume and weighs only 0.475kg. Once deployed, the CTML has a total length of 2m, 20 times the stowed height. The device consists of three multi-stable cylindrical composite lattices connected in series. To improve packaging efficiency, these lattices nest inside one another in the stowed configuration. The morphing lattice is a structure that uses prestress and lamina orientation to seamlessly morph from a short stowed state to a long deployed state. By tailoring the manufacturing parameters, the lattices in the boom have been designed to maximize the deployment force and to be self-deploying. Therefore, the CTML only requires a small, lightweight mechanism to regulate the deployment speed. The deployment speed regulator can also potentially retract the boom back to the stowed state, facilitating reconfigurability.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85084099880&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1115/SMASIS2019-5620
DO - 10.1115/SMASIS2019-5620
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85084099880
T3 - ASME 2019 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, SMASIS 2019
BT - ASME 2019 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, SMASIS 2019
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 2019 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, SMASIS 2019
Y2 - 9 September 2019 through 11 September 2019
ER -