Solar power sail membrane prototype for OKEANOS mission

This paper reports on the manufacturing and evaluation of a solar power sail membrane prototype for the OKEANOS project. The in-house prototype was built by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Mechanical and electrical evaluation tests were conducted. The membrane, thin-film solar cells, reflectivity control devices were good condition after the manufacturing and handling. The improvements in the manufacturing process and design were found. The manufacturing process and design were fundamentally established. After the prototype, improvement plans for the manufacturing process and design were tried. We have a prospect of manufacturing the flight model sail and continue to the development.     

Microstructure and mechanical properties of hybrid fabricated 1Cr12Ni2WMoVNb steel by laser melting deposition

 Laser melting deposition was carried out to deposit a 1Cr12Ni2WMoVNb steel bar on a wrought bar of same material. Room-temperature tensile properties of the hybrid fabricated 1Cr12Ni2WMoVNb steel sample were evaluated, and microstructure, fracture surface morphology, and hardness profile were analyzed by an optical microscope (OM), a scanning electron microscope (SEM), and a hardness tester. Results show that the hybrid fabricated 1Cr12Ni2WMoVNb steel sample consists of laser deposited zone, wrought substrate zone, and heat affected zone (HAZ) of the wrought substrate. The laser deposited zone has coarse columnar prior austenite grains and fine well-aligned dendritic structure, while the HAZ of the wrought substrate has equiaxed prior austenite grains which are notably finer than those in the wrought substrate zone. Besides, austenitic transformation mechanism of the HAZ of the wrought substrate is different from that of the laser deposited zone during the reheating period of the laser deposition, which determines the different prior austenite grain morphologies of the two zones. Microhardness values of both the laser deposited zone and the HAZ of the wrought substrate are higher than that of the wrought substrate zone. Tensile properties of the hybrid fabricated 1Cr12Ni2WMoVNb steel sample are comparable to those of the wrought bar, and fracture occurs in the wrought substrate zone during the tensile test.     

侧风着陆滑行飞机轮胎-道面相互作用分析

通过对侧风作用下的飞机受力进行分析,建立了轮胎-道面相互作用理论模型,得到了侧风作用下两者相互作用的主要影响因素,并进一步基于有限元分析软件ABAQUS建立了侧偏轮胎-道面有限元模型,研究了轮胎不同侧偏角度以及跑道不同积水厚度等因素对于飞机轮胎与道面相互作用的影响规律变化情况。研究结果表明：飞机在跑道滑行时在侧风作用会产生偏离跑道中心线的趋势,道面对轮胎的侧偏力是影响飞机质心偏离跑道中心线距离的重要因素;轮胎侧偏角增大导致轮胎接地非对称性增强,轮胎迎水面的区域长度也呈逐步增大趋势;轮胎迎水面的动水压强呈非对称分布,动水压强较高的区域出现在轮胎的偏转侧,并且最大值接近于1 MPa,此时易出现滑水风险;而随着跑道道面水膜厚度的逐渐增加,道面相应的侧向摩擦因数也在减小,当水膜厚度达到机场运行管理规定中临界值13 mm时,道面摩擦因数仅为干道面时的一半,大大增加飞机偏出跑道风险。