Deployable Structures

ISBN-13: 9783211836859 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 360 str.

S. Pellegrino; S. Pellegrino

Opis

Covers three themes: concepts, working principles, and mechanics of deployable structures in engineering and biology; theory of foldable bar structures and application to deployable tensegrities; and formulation of large-rotation analysis and finite-element simulation methods.

Spis treści

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.-