Investigation of the potential applications of shape memory alloys for space debris remediation applications

Active debris removal is becoming an important area of research due to the rapid growth of space debris and the need for some form of debris remediation. Debris remediation concepts fall into two general categories: contactbased and contactless. Contact-based schemes for debris capture have to overc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Feng, Louis Wei-Yu
Other Authors: Martinez, Peter
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29632