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Part of the book series: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM, volume 412)
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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 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.
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Keywords
- Automotive and Aerospace Engineering
- Building Construction
- Control
- Dynamical Systems
- HVAC
- Numerical and Computational Methods in Engineering
- Viration
- communication
- computational method
- computational methods
- construction
- control
- dynamical systems
- finite element method
- mechanics
- mechanism
- roof
- rotation
- simulation
- Tensegrity
Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Deployable Structures
Editors: S. Pellegrino
Series Title: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-2584-7
Publisher: Springer Vienna
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Wien 2001
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-211-83685-9Published: 06 February 2002
eBook ISBN: 978-3-7091-2584-7Published: 04 May 2014
Series ISSN: 0254-1971
Series E-ISSN: 2309-3706
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 360
Number of Illustrations: 226 b/w illustrations
Topics: Building Construction and Design, Automotive Engineering, Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control, Computational Intelligence