Deployable Structures

✍ Scribed by Professor S. Pellegrino (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Wien
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 368
• Series: International Centre for Mechanical Sciences 412
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

Front Matter....Pages ii-xii
Deployable Structures in Engineering....Pages 1-35
Deployable Structures in Nature....Pages 37-50
Stealing Ideas from Nature....Pages 51-58
How to Fold a Membrane....Pages 59-75
Elastic Folding of Shell Structures....Pages 77-98
Bi-Stable Structures....Pages 99-111
Infinitesimal and Finite Mechanisms....Pages 113-142
Kinematic Bifurcation....Pages 143-169
Matrices for Deployable Structures....Pages 171-178
Tensegrity Systems....Pages 179-198
Foldable Tensegrities....Pages 199-238
Finite Element Simulation of Deployable Structures....Pages 239-360

✦ Subjects

Building Construction; Automotive Engineering; Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control; Computational Intelligence