Modelling hypervelocity impacts into aluminum structures based on LDEF data

Details Modelling hypervelocity impacts into aluminum structures based on LDEF data Modelling hypervelocity impacts into aluminum structures based on LDEF data

Mar 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993lpi....24..331c&link_type=abstract

In Lunar and Planetary Inst., Twenty-fourth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Part 1: A-F p 331-332 (SEE N94-12015 01-91)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Aerospace Environments, Aluminum, Impact Damage, Impactors, Impingement, Long Duration Exposure Facility, Micrometeoroids, Space Debris, Spacecraft Structures, Cracks, Cratering, Delaminating, Erosion, Oxygen Atoms, Pitting

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Realizing and understanding the effects of the near-Earth space environment on a spacecraft during its mission lifetime is becoming more important with the regeneration of America's space program. Included among these potential effects are the following: erosion and surface degradation due to atomic oxygen impingement; ultraviolet exposure embrittlement; and delamination, pitting, cratering, and ring formation due to micrometeoroid and debris impacts. These effects may occur synergistically and may alter the spacecraft materials enough to modify the resultant crater, star crack, and/or perforation. This study concentrates on modelling the effects of micrometeoroid and debris hypervelocity impacts into aluminum materials (6061-T6). Space debris exists in all sizes, and has the possibility of growing into a potentially catastrophic problem, particularly since self-collisions between particles can rapidly escalate the number of small impactors. We have examined the morphologies of the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) impact craters and the relationship between the observed impact damage on LDEF versus the existing models for both the natural (micrometeoroid) and manmade (debris) environments in order to better define these environments.

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