PNEUMATICALLY SUPPORTED TOWERS FOR LOW GRAVITY APPLICATIONS

Pneumatically supported towers for low gravity applications are disclosed herein. In one aspect, an inflatable tower for use in vacuum environments can have a membrane configured to support a load when inflated with an inflation gas to a pressures less than 100,000 pascals and greater than 0.01 pasc...

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Hauptverfasser:	Sercel, Joel C, Small, James G, Wahl, Philip J, Peterson, Craig E
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	BUILDING BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES CEILINGS FENCING FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS FLOORS GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS MASTS ROOFS SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS
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Zusammenfassung:	Pneumatically supported towers for low gravity applications are disclosed herein. In one aspect, an inflatable tower for use in vacuum environments can have a membrane configured to support a load when inflated with an inflation gas to a pressures less than 100,000 pascals and greater than 0.01 pascal. The inflation gas can be chosen to have a sufficiently low boiling temperature at the inflation pressure of the membrane that the gas will not condense to a liquid or solid within a defined range of temperatures in which the tower is designed to operate. The membrane can be configured to be packaged for transport in deflated condition and rolled onto cylinders from which the membrane can be later unfurled and inflated as part of the tower inflation process.