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Title: Parachute system design, analysis, and simulation tool. Status report

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OSTI ID:10157463

For over twenty years designers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed various parachute simulation codes to model deployment, inflation, loading, trajectories, aircraft downwash and line sail. In addition to these codes, material property data bases have been acquired. Recently we have initiated project to integrate these codes and data bases into a single software tool entitled SPARSYS (Sandia PARachute SYstem Simulation). We have constructed a graphical user interface as the driver and framework for SPARSYS. In this paper we present a status report on SPARSYS describing progress in developing and incorporating independent modules, in developing an integrated trajectory package, and in developing a materials data base including high-rate-of-strain data.

Research Organization:
Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-76DP00789
OSTI ID:
10157463
Report Number(s):
SAND-92-1888C; CONF-930580-3; AIAA-93-1208; ON: DE93013755
Resource Relation:
Conference: 12. Royal Aeronautical Society/American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (RAS/AIAA) aerodynamic decelerator systems technical conference,London (United Kingdom),10 May 1993; Other Information: PBD: [1992]
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English