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Question 1

Structure Type that uses a specific shape, usually a box/cylinder.

Answer 1

Open truss

Question 2

Structure Type with frame/equipment directly attached to structural elements.

Answer 2

Body mounted.

Question 3

Structure Type using both Open Truss and Body Mounted.

Answer 3

Combination

Question 4

Pull something apart (structure load).

Answer 4

Tension structure load

Question 5

Opposing loads applied to perpendicular cross-sections (structure load).

Answer 5

Shear

Question 6

Pushing something together (structure load).

Answer 6

Compression

Question 7

Produced by twisting (structure load).

Answer 7

Torsion

Question 8

Effects of a load applied to a structure.

Answer 8

Stress

Question 9

Stress causes a temporary change in shape or deformation of structure. What is the amount of deformation per unit length?

Answer 9

Strain

Question 10

What structure mechanisms can only be used a few times (e.g., deployment of solar arrays, antennas, and booms?).

Answer 10

Low Cycle Mechanisms

Question 11

What structure mechanisms can be used constantly throughout vehicle life?

Answer 11

High Cycle Mechanisms

Question 12

What structural space hazard involves internal heat generation and heat absorbed by the spacecraft?

Answer 12

Thermal Radiation

Question 13

What structural space hazard results in cold welding and outgassing?

Answer 13

Space Vacuum

Question 14

What structural space hazard results in collisions with natural debris?

Answer 14

Micrometeoroids/Space debris

Question 15

What structural space hazard results in oxidized metals and eroded polymers?

Answer 15

Atomic oxygen

Question 16

What structural space hazard results in energetic particles passing through the spacecraft’s materials?

Answer 16

Charged-particle radiation