Abstract: Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator or HIAD is a simple re-entry vehicle designed by NASA. The vehicle happens to be the first of its kind as it inflates after reaching a certain height, making it more feasible to increase payload and ease deceleration. There have been three IRVE (Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiments) designs that have been launched to the tip of the stratosphere to test this new concept out. As this concept is going to be applied in hypersonic speeds, the stresses, heat and pressure on it will be very high. Here, a structural, thermal and thermo structural analysis using different software over the nose of the structure has been performed to try and understand its behaviour at such high speeds and temperatures.
Keywords: Re-entry Vehicle, Hypersonic Speed, Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Vehicle (HIAD), Structural Analysis, Thermal Analysis, Kevlar, Kapton.
Title: Structural and Thermal Analysis On A Re-entry Vehicle Aeroshell
Author: Sai Nandyala, Sneha Srinivasan, Sonali Ravikumar
International Journal of Engineering Research and Reviews
ISSN 2348-697X (Online)
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