LDEF data: Comparisons with existing models

Details LDEF data: Comparisons with existing models LDEF data: Comparisons with existing models

Apr 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993ldef.symp..619c&link_type=abstract

In NASA. Langley Research Center, LDEF: 69 Months in Space. Second Post-Retrieval Symposium, Part 2 p 619-664 (SEE N93-29354 11-

Computer Science

Earth Orbital Environments, Impact Damage, Impactors, Long Duration Exposure Facility, Meteorite Craters, Meteoroids, Micrometeoroids, Projectile Cratering, Space Debris, Aluminum, Computer Programs, Delaminating, Hydrodynamics, Personal Computers, Scaling Laws

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The relationship between the observed cratering impact damage on the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) versus the existing models for both the natural environment of micrometeoroids and the man-made debris was investigated. Experimental data was provided by several LDEF Principal Investigators, Meteoroid and Debris Special Investigation Group (M&D SIG) members, and by the Kennedy Space Center Analysis Team (KSC A-Team) members. These data were collected from various aluminum materials around the LDEF satellite. A PC (personal computer) computer program, SPENV, was written which incorporates the existing models of the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) environment. This program calculates the expected number of impacts per unit area as functions of altitude, orbital inclination, time in orbit, and direction of the spacecraft surface relative to the velocity vector, for both micrometeoroids and man-made debris. Since both particle models are couched in terms of impact fluxes versus impactor particle size, and much of the LDEF data is in the form of crater production rates, scaling laws have been used to relate the two. Also many hydrodynamic impact computer simulations were conducted, using CTH, of various impact events, that identified certain modes of response, including simple metallic target cratering, perforations and delamination effects of coatings.

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