DEFINITION:
Includes the development of related analysis and test tools and methods, shield developments, damage assessments etc.
(source: ESA TD 20I)
SUBDOMAINS:
- Tools and Methodologies for Design and Verification of Meteoroid & Debris Shields: Covers numerical tools, materials models, shield test methods, gas guns, shaped charges, data acquisition technologies.
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Upper level
Sections at this level
- 01 Structural Design and Verification, Methods and Tools
- 02 Special & Advanced types of Structures
- 03 Damage Tolerance & Health Monitoring
- 04 Launcher, re-entry and planetary vehicle structures
- 05 Meteoroid & Debris protection (shield design and analysis)
- 06 Novel Materials & Materials Technology
- 07 Material Processes (including modelling of behaviour and properties and obsolescence)
- 08 Cleanliness & Sterilization
- 09 Space environments effects on materials & processes
- 10 Materials for Electronics Assemblies
- 11 Mechanisms engineering and core technology
- 12 Release mechanisms
- 13 Mechanisms control electronics
- 14 MEMS & special types of mechanisms