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A.P. Blinov, "Problem of Unwinding of a Rotating Cluster of Bodies under Zero Gravity," Mech. Solids. 50 (3), 256-259 (2015)
Year 2015 Volume 50 Number 3 Pages 256-259
DOI 10.3103/S0025654415030036
Title Problem of Unwinding of a Rotating Cluster of Bodies under Zero Gravity
Author(s) A.P. Blinov (Timiryazev Moscow Agriculture Academy, Russian State Agricultural University, ul. Timiryazevskaya 49, Moscow, 127550 Russia, blinovap@gmail.com)
Abstract The problem of unwinding, under zero gravity, of a pair of dynamically identical bodies (dumbbell-shaped spacecraft) connected by an inextensible weightless film wound as a roll around the cylindrical surfaces of the bodies is considered. In the prelaunch position, the axes of these surfaces are parallel to each other and equidistant from the cluster rotation axis. The film winding direction is consistent with the direction of the cluster rotation so that, after the holding locks are opened, the bodies begin to move away from each other under the action of centrifugal forces, thus pulling and unwinding the film. It is assumed that the film median passes through the cluster center of mass. A pair of cords bounding an imaginary film can be used instead of the actual film as well.

Some basic relations between the cluster motion parameters in the unwinding process are obtained.

A scheme for describing the unwinding of clusters of any number of dynamically identical polygon-shaped bodies is proposed.
Keywords cluster of bodies, kinematics, trajectory
References
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2.  V. Ph. Zhuravlev, "On Stability of Steady-State Motions of a Plane Body in the Field of a Central Force," Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR. Mekh. Tverd. Tela, No. 4, 71-76 (1983) [Mech. Solids (Engl. Transl.)].
3.  L. D. Akulenko and D. D. Leshchenko, "Relative Oscillations and Rotations of a Plane Hinged Cluster of Two Solids," Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR. Mekh. Tverd. Tela, No. 2, 8 (1991) [Mech. Solids (Engl. Transl.)].
Received 20 November 2012
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