| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2023 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Additive Manufacturing: Length-Scale Phenomena in Mechanical Response
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| Presentation Title |
A-43: Additively Manufactured Structured Fabrics for Deployable Antenna Structures |
| Author(s) |
Punnathat Bordeenithikasem, Tracy Lu, Connor McMahan, Chiara Daraio |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Punnathat Bordeenithikasem |
| Abstract Scope |
Structured fabrics are continuums of interacting elementary particles or unit cells (e.g. chainmail is made of interlocking links). Such fabrics are conformable in the relaxed state, but become rigidized when the particles interlock/jam in response to an internal tension constraint. In this talk, we will discuss the development of a deployable reflector antenna for use in small satellites for Earth science investigations. The deployable structure will consist of hollow beads fabricated using additive manufacturing (AM). Wires will be threaded through the printed beads such that when the wires are tensioned beyond a threshold, the beads will jam into a rigid state, and deploy. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Additive Manufacturing, Shaping and Forming, Mechanical Properties |