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Master Thesis - OUFTI-1

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<strong>Thesis</strong> outline<br />

This thesis focuses on the structural design of a new support for the batteries and dynamic<br />

analysis of the nanosatellite <strong>OUFTI</strong>-1, developed at the University of Liège (ULg).<br />

This work will be divided into 6 parts:<br />

• Firstly, a brief introduction about the project and its history will be presented.<br />

• Then, the general conguration of the satellite will be discussed. The requirements<br />

and constraints which led to the nal conguration, will be introduced subsystem by<br />

subsystem to bring an overall view of the project.<br />

• In the third chapter, the design of a new support for the batteries will be studied.<br />

The reasons that led to change the support created last year, will be exposed and<br />

the development phase will be discussed step by step.<br />

• After this structural design part, we will focus on dynamic analysis. The rst step<br />

will be to create a dynamic modeling procedure for the electronic cards. The dierent<br />

methods that already exist to realize an accurate Finite Element (FE) model will be<br />

discussed. Then, the best one will be applied to the Homemade On-Board Computer<br />

(OBC 2) of <strong>OUFTI</strong>-1.<br />

• Applying this procedure to each electronic card of <strong>OUFTI</strong>-1, complete static and<br />

dynamic analysis will be performed. Random vibration analysis will also be presented<br />

to demonstrate the structural integrity of the satellite during the launch phase.<br />

• Finally, the conclusions of this thesis will be drawn and perspectives for future works<br />

will be highlighted.<br />

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