"Additionally, in the space between the bumper sheet and the containment wall, the particle fragment cloud expands to impact a larger surface area of the containment wall, thereby eliminating concentrated energetic impact of the fragments on a single point on the wall, and increasing the penetration resistance of the wall."
"In existing structures such as a space station, the structural design is quite intricate with many interrelated "trade-off" of parameters and the existing designs have a "Whipple Shield" for the crew area which is designed to provide protection against hypervelocity impact matter. With increasing concerns regarding protection against the accumulating orbital debris in space and its size, it is desirable to enhance the protection capability of existing Whipple Shields without requiring expensive redesign or without significantly increasing weight." "SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is a system for enhancing the protection capabilities of existing Whipple Shield structures against penetration by hypervelocity impact particles and for enabling greater protection capabilities for new Whipple Shield structures against penetration by hypervelocity impact matter at reduced structural weight and/or stand off (spacing) distances. " Thanks Rick, Darren and Rob Jerry Flaherty ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Davis To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 2:55 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Space station moves to avoid debris see http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5610363-description.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Gerald Flaherty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Rob McCafferty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Space station moves to avoid debris Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 14:38:42 -0500 >I'm "shocked" that such a "meager" device can successfully protect against >high velocity impacts from debris? Why does it vaporize and not continue >through? >The gel in the Stardust collector showed particles penetrating several >millimeters into the material. >I see that the gel and the foil are different materials, the former meant to >collect but a centimeter sized particle traveling at those speeds?? >Help. >Jerry Flaherty >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Darren Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Rob McCafferty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> >Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 12:36 PM >Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Space station moves to avoid debris > > > > On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 07:22:36 -0800 (PST), you wrote: > > > >> > >>> > >>> Does anyone know more about the 'anti-meteorite > >>> system' that protects the ISS from being > >>> struck? 'Shields Up Scotty!' > >>> > >>I believe it's as simple as a couple of layers of > >>baking foil mounted over the main body of the station. > >>The foil and impactor are vaporised by the impact and > >>the vapour cannot penetrate do damage to the > >>habitation modules. I believe the whole skin of the > > > > The term is "Whipple shield" or "Whipple barrier" > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipple_shield > > ______________________________________________ > > Meteorite-list mailing list > > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > >______________________________________________ >Meteorite-list mailing list >Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com >http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
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