Contents
Introducing a new all steel accordion force limiting device for space structures / Maryam Poursharifi ; Karim Abedi ; Mohammadreza Chenaghlou ; Robert B. Fleischman 1
Abstract 1
1. Introduction 1
2. Accordion force limiting device 3
2.1. AFLD design 3
3. Experimental program 4
3.1. AFLD Manufacturing 4
3.2. Loading and instrumentation 6
4. Experimental results and discussion 6
5. Finite element modeling 8
5.1. Description of modeling 8
5.2. Verification 9
6. Parametric study 9
6.1. Effect of core material 9
6.2. Effect of accordion wave length 11
6.3. Effect of accordion diameter 11
7. Algorithm for designing AFLD 11
8. Conclusion 12
References 13