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Dynamic Modeling and Analysis of Deployable Truss System

Miao Bingqi * Qu Guangji ** Yang Lei ** Liu Yinhu * (*College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014) (**Chinese Academy of Space Technology, Beijing 100086)   

  • Online:2004-02-25

Abstract: A dynamic model for a kind of deployable truss systems is derived. The method for solving the derived nonlinear differential-algebraic equation system is provided. An example is given to simulate the deployment of a typical truss system. It is shown that the derived model and the provided method for solving the dynamic equations are efficient for the truss system deployment simulation. The difficulty encountered in applying the commercial dynamic software can be avoided.