@inproceedings{19c9fb88e0b649bcada3abdc0b9dbc13,
title = "RESPONSE OF LARGE SPACE STRUCTURES WITH STIFFNESS CONTROL.",
abstract = "For large space structures, such as the 100-meter-diameter wrap-rib deployable antenna and spinning solar sail, whose out-of-plane stiffness is derived from in-plane tension, the out-of-plane motion can be actively controlled by time-varying in-plane tension. An elastic string is used to demonstrate the proposed approach, which results in a nonlinear ordinary differential equation. An approximation method is outlined from which the magnitude of time-varying tension can be determined based on the efficiency factor, the time factor or the optimal factor.",
author = "Chen, \{Jay Chung\}",
year = "1984",
language = "English",
isbn = "0877031908",
series = "Advances in the Astronautical Sciences",
publisher = "r American Astronautical Soc by Univelt Inc",
number = "Pt 1",
pages = "417--431",
editor = "G.T. Tseng and Bainum, \{Peter M.\} and Levinson, \{David A.\}",
booktitle = "Advances in the Astronautical Sciences",
edition = "Pt 1",
}