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Pressure wall hole size and maximum tip-to-tip crack length following orbital debris penetration

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Schonberg, William P.
Published
Feb. 1996.
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Summary
The threat of damage from high speed meteoroid and orbital debris particle impacts has become a significant design consideration in the development and construction of long duration earth-orbiting spacecraft. Historically, significant amounts of resources have been devoted to developing shielding for such structures as a means of reducing the penetration potential of high speed on-orbit impacts. These efforts have typically focused on simply whether or not the inner (or 'pressure') walls of candidate multi-wall structural systems would be perforated. Only recently the nature and extent of pressure wall penetration damage have begun to be explored. This report presents the results of a study whose objective was to characterize the hole formation and cracking phenomena associated with the penetration of the multi-wall systems being considered for the International Space Station Alpha (ISSA).
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
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Document ID: 19960025469.
Accession ID: 96N27506.
Research Reports: 1995 NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Program; NASA-CR-199830.
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