Fundamentals of STEM Mechanics

  • F. P. J. Rimrott
  • G. Fritzsche
Conference paper
Part of the Solid Mechanics and Its Applications book series (SMIA, volume 80)

Abstract

Deployable slit overlapped tubing has become known to space engineers by the acronym STEM (Rimrott, 1995), which stands for Storable Tubular Extendible Member. The principle employed in a STEM is an extension of that used for coilable self-straightening steel measuring tapes. While the measuring tape covers only a small portion of the cylinder formed by its radius of curvature, the STEM forms not only a complete tube, but because of its overlap covers more than the cylinder formed by its radius of curvature (Figures 1 and 2). The choice of overlap depends upon several factors; the angle subtending the overlap typically amounting to anywhere from 155 to 167. STEMs represent a basic deployable structure.

Keywords

Local Buckling Shear Centre Guidance Mechanism Deployable Structure Extended Portion 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • F. P. J. Rimrott
    • 1
  • G. Fritzsche
    • 2
  1. 1.Department of Mechanical and Industrial EngineeringUniversity of TorontoTorontoCanada
  2. 2.Institut für MechanikOtto-von-Guericke-UniversitätMagdeburgGermany

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