Use these modules to establish the shielding distribution of a complex geometry. This package includes a spherical shell, a cylindrical shell, and a box. In all cases you specify the shell thickness, the dimensions of the shell, and the position of interest within the shell. The figure shows the geometrical arrangement of a cylindrical shell.¹

Space Radiation does the rest. It performs the ray tracing and accumulates the results in a spacecraft shielding file. That file may be used in all Space Radiation transport calculations. It may also be used with [205] Dose-Depth Functions to quickly determine the total dose within the object.


The following graph displays the shielding distribution derived for the cylinder pictured above. The distribution was drawn with [207] Instant Graphics.

¹ The 3d rendering of the cylinder was performed with software that is not currently available as a Space Radiation module.