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A structural analysis of a large orbital antenna is reduced to stress–strain, stability, and modal analyses of its prestressed structure. The numerical results obtained by the finite-element method are presented
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Gulyaev, V.I., Gaidaichuk, V.V., Chernyavskii, A.G. et al. Dynamic Behavior of a Large Deployable Reflector. International Applied Mechanics 39, 1084–1088 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:INAM.0000008218.20629.4f
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