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On the stress-strain state of film structures in space at electrodynamic deployment

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We discuss a possibility of using the Ampere force for deployment and stabilization of film structures in space. It is supposed that a conductor connected with a power supply is deposited on the surface of a thin film, or solar batteries are used as conductors with current. The stress and strain of the thin film, caused by the electric current flow over a circular conductor confining this film, are found. The method of calculating the radial component of the stress tensor in a film, connected with concentric circular conductors with current, is obtained. The distribution of stresses for a film with three conductors is calculated. A possibility of minimizing the magnetic moment of a system of currents is discussed.

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  1. International Agency for Complex Monitoring of the Earth, Natural and Technogenous Catastrophes, Moscow, Russia

    V. M. Sorokin & V. M. Chmyrev

  2. Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow oblast, 142190, Russia

    A. K. Yashchenko

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Original Russian Text © V.M. Sorokin, V.M. Chmyrev, A.K. Yashchenko, 2007, published in Kosmicheskie Issledovaniya, 2007, Vol. 45, No. 6, pp. 536–542.

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Sorokin, V.M., Chmyrev, V.M. & Yashchenko, A.K. On the stress-strain state of film structures in space at electrodynamic deployment. Cosmic Res 45, 506–512 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S001095250706007X

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