NASA NTRS · 19840000350
Synchronously Deployable Truss
Abstract
Double-layered truss structure compactly packaged and sychronously deployed. Synchronously deployable truss constructed of two surface layers of struts, arranged in triangles, connected by "tripods" of equal-length core struts. Mechanism powered by passive spring and damped by hydraulic-damping cylinder. When released, spring drives slider linked to core and surface struts. Variety of truss geometries, including curved structures, comtemplated.
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Bush, H. G., Mikulas, M. K., Jr., Wallsom, R. E.. 1985-04-01. Synchronously Deployable Truss. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19840000350
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