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Hypervelocity Impact Analysis Of Hybrid Nanocomposite Sensors For Inflatable Space Structures, Yachna Gola May 2019

Hypervelocity Impact Analysis Of Hybrid Nanocomposite Sensors For Inflatable Space Structures, Yachna Gola

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Future space exploration requires easy-to-transport, and easy-to-build and deploy space habitats. NASA and Bigelow Aerospace have collaborated so that human habitation can be made safe and easy with inflatable space habitats (Litteken, 2017). One of the biggest threats faced by these structures in outer space is impact damage by micrometeoroid orbital debris (MMOD) traveling at velocities as high as 15 km/s (Lemmens, Krag, Rosebrock, & Carnelli, 2013). This work presents fabrication and testing of hybrid nanocomposites with carbon nanotubes (CNT) and coarse graphene nanoplatelets (GNP) as fillers and flexible epoxy matrix, that are proposed to be used for sensing the …