Spaceships hull armor…solid?

Polydamas · 09-19-2022, 10:08 PM

Here are some papers on Whipple Shields. I am going to read them and learn from them. If people want to keep exchanging rhetoric in defense of their preconceptions, that is OK too!

"Status and Perspectives in Protective Design" Space Debris 2 (2000) https://link.springer.com/article/10...29884.04355.9a (can be dowloaded from a university library or other places)

"Hypervelocity Impacts and Protection" which seems to be some kind of technical report or working paper from the European Space Agency and is dated 2001 https://www.researchgate.net/publica...and_Protection (can be downloaded by anyone with a browser)

Edit: Pai, A. ; Divakaran, R. ; Anand, S. ; Shenoy, S. B. "Advances in the Whipple Shield Design and Development: A Brief Review." Journal of dynamic behavior of materials, 2021, Vol.8 Nr. 1, pp. 20-38 https://link.springer.com/content/pd...70-021-00314-7 (seems to be open access) Regarding the claim that tests focus on a narrow range of velocities and impactors, they state that most tests examine velocities from 3 to 18 km / s

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Polydamas Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Central Europe	Re: Spaceships hull armor…solid? Here are some papers on Whipple Shields. I am going to read them and learn from them. If people want to keep exchanging rhetoric in defense of their preconceptions, that is OK too! "Status and Perspectives in Protective Design" Space Debris 2 (2000) https://link.springer.com/article/10...29884.04355.9a (can be dowloaded from a university library or other places) "Hypervelocity Impacts and Protection" which seems to be some kind of technical report or working paper from the European Space Agency and is dated 2001 https://www.researchgate.net/publica...and_Protection (can be downloaded by anyone with a browser) Edit: Pai, A. ; Divakaran, R. ; Anand, S. ; Shenoy, S. B. "Advances in the Whipple Shield Design and Development: A Brief Review." Journal of dynamic behavior of materials, 2021, Vol.8 Nr. 1, pp. 20-38 https://link.springer.com/content/pd...70-021-00314-7 (seems to be open access) Regarding the claim that tests focus on a narrow range of velocities and impactors, they state that most tests examine velocities from 3 to 18 km / s __________________ "It is easier to banish a habit of thought than a piece of knowledge." H. Beam Piper This forum got less aggravating when I started using the ignore feature Last edited by Polydamas; 09-20-2022 at 12:21 AM.