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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 sola...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service), International Centre for Mechanical Sciences
Other Authors: Pellegrino, S. (Sergio)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wien ; New York : Springer, [2001]
Series:Courses and lectures ; number 412.
Subjects:
Flexible structures > Design and construction.
Structural engineering.
Estruturas.
Faltenbildung.
Flexible Struktur.
Konstruktion.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.-.