Publication: Design and development of foldable structure
Date
2002-03-01
Authors
Baharudin, Mohamad Ezral
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Abstract
Space technology has been widely used and implemented for earth purposes.
These high technologies were found to possess many good uses to the more quality and
high technology consumer products. Generally, when this technology is being applied for
earth purposes, several problems will be encountered and some modifications have to be
made to overcome this problem especially when dealing with gravity factor. The
structure that can be deployed and stowed which is known as foldable structure are
generally used by satellite to increase the surface area of the solar panel using elongation
principle which is known as boom. This structure has the potential to be implemented on
earth due to the ability of this structure to be deployed and stowed. Initially, gravity
factor is not taken into account for this design and there are several analyses that can be
neglected. This research will analyze the gravity factor that reacts to the structure when it
is taken to the ground. Furthermore, this research will analyze the concept and
mechanism on its ability to deploy and stowed. This will take into account the forces that
act on the structure to make it elongate and shortened when required. This research
includes the fabrication of the prototype in order to understand about the deploy
mechanism better and the concept that can be implemented for the earth purposes. The
potentials of this structure to be used in several different fields such as construction,
telecommunication and military have been discussed.