Technologies > Thin Films > Structural

A large part of Mevicon's research has been focused on establishing the scalability of the formed thin film shell concepts to apertures of sufficient size for eventual space applications. This has been numerically achieved for spherical, on-axis parabolic, and off axis parabolic shells of considerable dimensions (upwards of 20 m+ shells have been shown to survive the expected worst case operation acceleration loads), and other key details such as lab demonstration of self deployment of the largest available shell sizes (0.5 to 1 m size) have been performed. Work in this area is currently transitioning to addressing readiness for flight issues in more detail, demonstration of manufacturing scalability efforts and focusing down on early flight demonstration prototype development.