Optimum Stress Design of a Rotating Wire Antenna
Abstract
The problem of designing a rotating wire antenna reduces to that of determining a functional relation between cross-sectional area and distance from the axis of rotation, so that the length of the wire is maximized without exceeding the tensile strength of the material at any point. Actually, this solution corresponds to the best-possible approximation to a uniform stress solution in which the tensile stress is equal to the tensile strength at every point along the wire. In obtaining such a solution, it is desirable to specify a maximum and a minimum allowable cross-sectional area, A sub o and A sub l, respectively. The value of A sub o would be determined on the basis of the size of wire which could be conveniently wound on a reel in a satellite vehicle, while the value of A sub l would depend on how fine a wire could be handled.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 27, 1960
- Accession Number
- AD0250381
Entities
People
- R. H. Frick
Organizations
- RAND Corporation