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From: eempa@iceman.jcu.oz (M Parigi)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: LNLL Inflatable Stations
Summary: Do they fail catastrophically?
Message-ID: <1221@iceman.jcu.oz>
Date: 8 Nov 90 04:04:48 GMT
References: <2667@polari.UUCP> <9011061347.AA16848@iti.org>
Organization: JCUNQ, Townsville, Qld, Australia
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What are the repairment proposals for damage due to space debris for the
LLNL inflatable space station. Would the material tend to tear due to the
pressure differential once a small rip was instigated (fail catastrophically,
much like an ALOHA airliner did some time ago, ripping its top off) like
most plastics, composites would; or would it tend to retain strength around the
hole like (unfatigued) metal, for the proposed material of the inflatable
station. What is the material being proposed?

	Marco Parigi.
	Electrical and Computer Engineering
	James Cook University N.Q. (They had nothing to do with it)