This content is not included in
your SAE MOBILUS subscription, or you are not logged in.
Self-Deployable Foam Antenna Structures for Earth Observation Radiometer Applications
Technical Paper
2006-01-2064
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
Annotation ability available
Sector:
Language:
English
Abstract
The overall goal of this program was the development of a 10 m. diameter, self-deployable antenna based on an open-celled rigid polyurethane foam system. Advantages of such a system relative to current inflatable or self-deploying systems include high volumetric efficiency of packing, high restoring force, low (or no) outgassing, low thermal conductivity, high dynamic damping, mechanical isotropy, infinite shelf life, and easy fabrication with methods amenable to construction of large structures (i.e., spraying). As part of a NASA Phase II SBIR, Adherent Technologies and its research partners, Temeku Technologies, and NASA JPL/Caltech, conducted activities in foam formulation, interdisciplinary analysis, and RF testing to assess the viability of using open cell polyurethane foams for self-deploying antenna applications.
Recommended Content
Authors
- Paul M. McElroy - Temeku Technologies, Inc.
- Andrea E. Hoyt Haight - Adherent Technologies, Inc.
- Peter B. Rand - Adherent Technologies, Inc.
- Tanya Shkindel - Adherent Technologies, Inc.
- Ronald E. Allred - Adherent Technologies, Inc.
- Paul B. Willis - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Citation
McElroy, P., Hoyt Haight, A., Rand, P., Shkindel, T. et al., "Self-Deployable Foam Antenna Structures for Earth Observation Radiometer Applications," SAE Technical Paper 2006-01-2064, 2006, https://doi.org/10.4271/2006-01-2064.Also In
References
- Hoyt Haight, A. E. Rand P. B. Allred R. E. Shkindel T. McElroy P. M. Willis P. B. “Open-Celled Rigid Foams for Self-Deploying Foam Antenna Structures,” Proc. 45th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conf. April 19-22 2004 Palm Springs, CA
- Genberg V. L. Michels G. J. Doyle K. B. “Making Mechanical FEA Results Useful in Optical Design” SPIE Paper 4769-04 2002
- Allred, R.A et. al. “Self-Deploying Foam Antenna Structures” NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center June 2002
- Datthanasombat Somsak “Analysis and Design of High-Gain Space-Fed Passive Microstrip Array Antennas,” University of Southern California, Dept. of Electrical Engineering Electrophysics Decembe 2003