Launch vehicle flight control augmentation using smart materials and advanced composites (CDDF Project 93-05)

Details Launch vehicle flight control augmentation using smart materials and advanced composites (CDDF Project 93-05) Launch vehicle flight control augmentation using smart materials and advanced composites (CDDF Project 93-05)

Feb 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995stin...9521346b&link_type=abstract

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Composite Structures, Control Surfaces, Flight Control, Launch Vehicles, Smart Structures, Spacecraft Construction Materials, Spacecraft Design, Aerodynamic Stability, Metal Matrix Composites, Saturn 5 Launch Vehicles, Shape Memory Alloys, Titanium

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The Marshall Space Flight Center has a rich heritage of launch vehicles that have used aerodynamic surfaces for flight stability such as the Saturn vehicles and flight control such as on the Redstone. Recently, due to aft center-of-gravity locations on launch vehicles currently being studied, the need has arisen for the vehicle control augmentation that is provided by these flight controls. Aerodynamic flight control can also reduce engine gimbaling requirements, provide actuator failure protection, enhance crew safety, and increase vehicle reliability, and payload capability. In the Saturn era, NASA went to the Moon with 300 sq ft of aerodynamic surfaces on the Saturn V. Since those days, the wealth of smart materials and advanced composites that have been developed allow for the design of very lightweight, strong, and innovative launch vehicle flight control surfaces. This paper presents an overview of the advanced composites and smart materials that are directly applicable to launch vehicle control surfaces.

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