Free Topology Generation of Thermal Protection System fo Reusable Space Vehicles using Integral Soft Objects

The present paper deals with a modelling procedure developed to design the thermal protection system of a Reusable Space Vehicle. Clusters of Skeleton-based Integral Soft Objects are created to assign independent distributions of thickness according to an arbitrary boolean map which represents two different insulating materials. The procedure is morphologically independent, and allows a powerful and local control of thickness and material distribution. The effectiveness of the modelling procedure is shown with applications to Reusable Space Vehicle concepts.