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dc.contributor.advisor | Chudoba, Bernd | |
dc.creator | Rana, Loveneesh | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-03-08T18:41:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-03-08T18:41:32Z | |
dc.date.created | 2017-08 | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-08-31 | |
dc.date.submitted | August 2017 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10106/27266 | |
dc.description.abstract | The early Conceptual Design (CD) of a Space Access System (SAS) is the most abstract, innovative, and technologically challenging phase throughout the entire aerospace product development life-cycle. While it is the most important life-cycle phase which influences around 80 percent of the overall life-cycle-cost, it is also the least understood design phase. The history of space access vehicle design provides numerous examples of projects that failed due to lack of a proper technology-hardware-mission assessment in the CD phase. The present dissertation addresses this crucial phase and develops a prototype best practice solution process to advance the current state of the art of the CD oriented vehicle design synthesis systems. The solution is a generic process that can be applied to all categories of the SAS. The Vertical-Takeoff Horizontal-Landing type SAS is selected as the demonstration case-study for the solution process. The research provides a proof of concept for how the proposed prototype solution process expands the scope and application of current applications of the CD assessment vertically across the SAS system`s hierarchy and horizontally across the life-cycle phases of the SAS. | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.subject | Space Access Systems | |
dc.subject | Spacecraft | |
dc.subject | Design | |
dc.subject | System engineering | |
dc.subject | Conceptual design | |
dc.subject | MDA | |
dc.subject | Synthesis | |
dc.subject | Space system | |
dc.title | SPACE ACCESS SYSTEMS DESIGN: Synthesis Methodology Development for Conceptual Design of Future Space Access Systems | |
dc.type | Thesis | |
dc.degree.department | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | |
dc.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy in Aerospace Engineering | |
dc.date.updated | 2018-03-08T18:41:32Z | |
thesis.degree.department | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | |
thesis.degree.grantor | The University of Texas at Arlington | |
thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | |
thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy in Aerospace Engineering | |
dc.type.material | text | |
dc.creator.orcid | 0000-0002-5637-5931 | |
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