Pretension Design and Analysis of Deployable Mesh Antenna considering the Effect of Gravity

Table 2

Pretension distribution of the cable net with different aperture diameters.

Diameter of aperture (m)	Item	Pretension values in cables ()
		Maximum	Minimum	Mean
10	Front cable net	84.20	50.52	69.12
	Back cable net	47.56	28.04	33.52
	Tension tie cables	10.48	7.52	9.40
12	Front cable net	85.36	48.67	70.12
	Back cable net	47.12	27.44	32.48
	Tension tie cables	10.34	7.36	9.25
16	Front cable net	86.88	47.64	68.84
	Back cable net	46.88	25.44	31.92
	Tension tie cables	10.28	7.28	9.16
20	Front cable net	88.94	48.36	70.34
	Back cable net	45.24	21.68	28.48
	Tension tie cables	12.36	6.28	8.83
24	Front cable net	92.34	53.08	72.56
	Back cable net	42.76	21.56	27.44
	Tension tie cables	11.24	5.84	8.72