Random Vibration of Space Shuttle Weather Protection Systems

The article deals with random vibrations of the space shuttle weather protection systems. The excitation model represents a fit to the measured experimental data. The cross-spectral density is given as a convex combination of three exponential functions. It is shown that for the type of loading cons...

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Main Authors: Isaac Elishakoff, Menahem Baruch, Liping Zhu, Raoul Caimi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 1995-01-01
Series:Shock and Vibration
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SAV-1995-2202
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Summary:The article deals with random vibrations of the space shuttle weather protection systems. The excitation model represents a fit to the measured experimental data. The cross-spectral density is given as a convex combination of three exponential functions. It is shown that for the type of loading considered, the Bernoulli-Euler theory cannot be used as a simplified approach, and the structure will be more properly modeled as a Timoshenko beam. Use of the simple Bernoulli-Euler theory may result in an error of about 50% in determining the mean-square value of the bending moment in the weather protection system.
ISSN:1070-9622
1875-9203