Excavation of artificial caverns inside asteroids by leveraging rotational self-energy

Future space ventures will likely require exploitation of near-Earth asteroid resources. Moreover, it can be envisaged that asteroids may host habitats in their interiors. In fact, a cavern inside an asteroid would be a natural radiation shield against cosmic radiation and may also serve as a confined environment for storage of mined material such as water ice or other processed volatiles such as propellants. To this end, this paper proposes to leverage the asteroid rotational self-energy to remove material from the asteroid interiors and create a spherical cavern, by means of the orbital siphon concept. The siphon is a chain of tether-connected payload masses (the asteroid material), which exploits the rotation of the asteroid for the delivery of mass from the asteroid to escape. Under certain conditions the siphon can be initiated to ensure self-sustained flow of mass from the asteroid to escape. A net orbital siphon effect is generated by connecting new payloads at the bottom of the chain while releasing the upper payloads. Key parameters are discussed, such as the required siphon dimension and the maximum size of the internal cavity that can be excavated, as a function of the asteroid rotational period. Moreover, assuming elastic material behaviour, a closed-form expression for the stress tensor is found and a failure criterion is used to identify regions in the asteroid interiors subjected to the larger stresses. It is shown that the conditions for failure are relaxed as the radius of the internal void increases.     

Orbital stability close to asteroid 624 Hektor using the polyhedral model

We investigate the orbital stability close to the unique L4-point Jupiter binary Trojan asteroid 624 Hektor. The gravitational potential of 624 Hektor is calculated using the polyhedron model with observational data of 2038 faces and 1021 vertexes. Previous studies have presented three different density values for 624 Hektor. The equilibrium points in the gravitational potential of 624 Hektor with different density values have been studied in detail. There are five equilibrium points in the gravitational potential of 624 Hektor no matter the density value. The positions, Jacobian, eigenvalues, topological cases, stability, as well as the Hessian matrix of the equilibrium points are investigated. For the three different density values the number, topological cases, and the stability of the equilibrium points with different density values are the same. However, the positions of the equilibrium points vary with the density value of the asteroid 624 Hektor. The outer equilibrium points move away from the asteroid’s mass center when the density increases, and the inner equilibrium point moves close to the asteroid’s mass center when the density increases. There exist unstable periodic orbits near the surface of 624 Hektor. We calculated an orbit near the primary’s equatorial plane of this binary Trojan asteroid; the results indicate that the orbit remains stable after 28.8375?d.     

Digital Aircraft Sheet Metal Part Manufacturing System and Its Key Technology

The architecture of digital sheet metal manufacturing system is proposed based on the classification of sheet metal manufacturing information.The essence of digital manufacturing is the definition,management and transfer of information,and the key technologies are brought forward and described.It is pointed out that knowledge-based manufacturing elements design is necessary to make digital technology efficient.The management of all kinds of sheet metal manufacturing element information is to build single source of manufacturing data.Multi-state model-based digital transfer and coordination method is designed to provide a foundation for digital manufacturing of aircraft sheet metal part.The application of digital sheet metal manufacturing is exemplified with an aircraft sheet metal part.The application result is compared to that of the traditional analog transfer technology.It is shown that the developed technology can improve part quality,shorten manufacturing time and lower manufacturing cost.     

Modelling of Spall in an Anisotropic Aluminium Alloy

Spall caused by hypervelocity impacts at the lower range of velocities could result in significant damage to spacecraft. A number of polycrystalline alloys, used in spacecraft manufacturing, exhibit a pronounced anisotropy in their mechanical properties. The aluminium alloy AA 7010, whose orthotropy is a consequence of the meso-scale phase distribution or grain morphology, has been chosen for this investigation. The material failure observed in plate impact was simulated using a number of spall models. The Hugoniot elastic limit and spall strength have been studied as a function of orientation, and compared to experimental results.     

电涡流传感器在偏心检测中的应用

本文讨论了电涡流传感器基本原理,提出了半边谐振曲线测量、传感器极值参数选择、传感器线圈交叉绕制等新方法,解决了小直径弱涡流效应偏心检测的难题。在WPX-01型偏心测量仪设计中,获得了满意的效果。     

卫星脉冲推力最优逃逸返回轨迹的非线性规划

重点研究了卫星通过轨道机动逃避碰撞、拦截并经一段时间后返回原轨道的逃逸方式。利用非线性规划理论建立了脉冲推力能量最省的逃逸轨迹规划模型，并考虑非球形摄动的影响对模型进行了修正。通过仿真验证了模型的正确性及求解的可行性，并分析了非球形摄动因素对逃逸过程的影响。     

基于预测零控脱靶量的拦截器中制导段导引

针对三维空间内的高速飞行目标,提出了一种基于预测零控脱靶量的中制导段导引方法。建立了拦截器与目标的相对运动关系模型,分析了确定修正轨道的约束条件,并在此基础上推导出修正轨道根数的计算方法。同时根据待增速度给出了推力定向和推力发动机工作时长的确定方法。仿真结果表明,该方法能有效实现拦截器中制导段的制导控制。     

流星体和碎片——航天器的微粒环境综述

介绍了流星体和碎片环境的特征和分布以及它们对航天器的影响和危害,并简单介绍了它们的探测方法和计算模式以及防护措施。     

有限推力下时间最优轨道转移

研究了一种有限推力作用下的时间最优轨道转移计算方法。以非奇异根素形式的高斯行星摄动方程为基础,由庞德里亚金极小值原理导出正则方程组,通过将最优控制问题转化为协状态初值为待优化参数的参数优化问题,并通过非线性规划求解得到的参数优化问题,从而避开求解两点边值问题的困难。文章最后给出2个算例,分别计算了零倾角零偏心率最优轨道转移和大倾角改变最优轨道转移。计算过程及结果表明本文所用方法对协状态初值猜测敏感性小,收敛迅速;零倾角零偏心率情况下无奇异;所得控制轨线光滑。     

金属膜片贮箱膜片变形的数值模拟与失效分析

根据弹塑性有限变形理论，用有限元法建立了卫星推进系统贮箱金属膜片变形的有限元分析模型。在一定条件下，模拟了贮箱金属膜片的变形翻转过程，分析其翻转的特点，以及变形过程中表面压力、顶点径向位移和卷边处应力的变化，并给出了膜片失效原因。研究表明，数值模拟与试验结果较为吻合，所建分析模型合理。