Design of Structural Mechanisms

ISBN-13: 9783838318257 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 136 str.

Yan Chen

Opis

In this work, the possibilities of systematically constructing large structural mechanisms using existing spatial overconstrained linkages with only revolute joints as basic elements has been explored. A general approach has been proposed, which can be divided into three steps: selection of suitable tilings, construction of overconstrained units and validation of compatibility. This approach has been successfully applied to the construction of the structural mechanisms based on Bennett linkages and hybrid Bricard linkages. Several possible configurations are discussed. All of the novel structural mechanisms presented here contain only revolute joints, have a single degree of mobility and are geometrically overconstrained. Research work could lead to substantial advancement in building large spatial deployable structures.

O autorze

Dr. Yan Chen received a D. Phil. (PhD) from University of Oxford, UK. She carried on her academic life after graduation. She has spent ten years on the research of overconstrained linkages and related topics, such as deployable structures, morphing and reconfigurable structures, origami and so on.