Deployable Structures
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Deployable Structures
(CISM courses and lectures, no. 412)
Springer, c2001
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
Deployable structures can vary their shape automatically from a compact, packaged configuration to an expanded, operational configuration. The first properly engineered deployable structures were used as stabilization booms on early spacecraft. Later on, more complex structures were devised for solar arrays, communication reflectors and telescopes. In other fields there have been a variety of developments, including retractable roofs for stadia, foldable components for cars, portable structures for temporary shelters and exhibition displays. Three main themes are discussed in this book: concepts, working principles, and mechanics of deployable structures, both in engineering and biology; in addition: theory of foldable bar structures and application to deployable tensegrieties; formulation of large-rotation analysis of deployable structures and finite-element simulation methods.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Addresses of contributing authors
- Deployable Structures in Engineering by S. Pellegrino.- Deployable Structures in Nature by J. F. V. Vincent.- Stealing Ideas from Nature by J. F. V. Vincent.- How to Fold a Membrane by S. Pellegrino and J. F. V. Vincent.- Elastic Folding of Shell Structures by S. Pellegrino.- Bi-Stable Structures by S. Pellegrino.- Infinitesimal and Finite Mechanisms by T. Tarnai.- Kinematic Bifurcation by T. Tarnai.- Matrices for Deployable Structures by S. Pellegrino.- Tensegrity Systems by R. Motro and N. Vassart.- Foldable Tensegrities by R. Motro et al.- Finite Element Simulation of Deployable Structures by M. Geradin.-
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