Space Vehicle Mechanisms: Elements of Successful Design / Edition 1

by Peter L. Conley

Overview

The first comprehensive reference on the design, analysis, and application of space vehicle mechanisms

Space Vehicle Mechanisms: Elements of Successful Design brings together accumulated industry experience in the design, analysis, and application of the mechanical systems used during space flight. More than thirty experts from a variety of related specialties and subspecialties share their insights, technical expertise, and in-depth knowledge on an enormous variety of topics, including:
* Stainless steel, beryllium, and other widely used materials
* Bearings
* Lubricants and component lubrication
* Release devices
* Motors
* Optical encoders
* Resolvers
* Signal and power transfer devices
* Deployment devices
* Thermal design
* Radiation and survivability
* Electrical interfaces
* Reliability

Space Vehicle Mechanisms is an indispensable resource for engineers involved in the design and analysis of mechanical assemblies used in space flight, and a valuable reference for space systems engineers, mission planners, and control systems engineers. It is also an excellent text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level courses in astronautical and mechanical engineering.

Space Vehicle Mechanisms: Elements of Successful Design brings together accumulated industry experience in the design, analysis, and application of the mechanical systems used during space flight. More than thirty experts from a variety of related specialties and subspecialties share their insights, technical expertise, and in-depth knowledge on an enormous variety of topics, including:

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471121411
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	02/27/1998
Pages:	816
Product dimensions:	6.36(w) x 9.31(h) x 1.89(d)

About the Author

PETER L. CONLEY is President of PC Engineering & Software, specializing in the design, analysis, and simulation of precision mechanical systems. He has published a number of technical papers and holds several patents in areas related to space mechanisms and technology.

Table of Contents

Stainless Steels (P. Gross).

Beryllium and Its Alloys (J. Marder).

Structural Composites (F. Penado).

Fasterner Materials (W. Ferguson).

Ball Bearing Materials (J. Grout).

Spring Materials (D. Kasul).

Solid Lubricants (D. Stone & P. Bessette).

Other Broadly Used Materials (G. Dallimore).

Pyrotechnic Release Devices (N. Butterfield).

Nonexplosive Release Devices (W. Purdy).

Ball Bearings (H. Singer).

Permanent Magnet Motors (R. Fink, et al.).

Feedback Devices (T. Malcolm, et al.).

Rotating Signal and Power Transfer (S. Cole, et al.).

Deployment Devices (M. Bowden).

Structural Dynamics (J. Leete).

Contamination (R. Rantanen).

Thermal Design (H. Wong).

Radiation and Survivability (M. Rose).

Design Validation (N. Butterfield & P. Conley).

Electrical Interfaces (L. Ekman).

The Pointing Subsystem (B. Eyerly & W. Burkett).

Appendices.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

A resource for engineers who design and analyze mechanical assemblies to be used where the service stations are very far apart and replacement parts could take longer to get than the available oxygen supply allows. Specialists in various fields discuss widely used materials, bearings, lubricants and component lubrication, release devices, motors, optical encoders, resolvers, signal and power transfer devices, deployment devices, thermal design, radiation and survivability, electrical interfaces, reliability, and other topics. In the tradition of spacecraft, the print is quite small to compact as much as possible into a small space. The collection is also suitable as a text for an upper-level or graduate course in astronautical or mechanical engineering. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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