1st Edition

Motion Structures Deployable Structural Assemblies of Mechanisms

By Zhong You, Yan Chen Copyright 2012
168 Pages
by CRC Press

168 Pages
by CRC Press

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.routledge.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license. Motion structures are simply assemblies of resistant bodies connected by movable joints. Unlike conventional structures, they allow large shape transformations to satisfy practical requirements and... Read more

Introduction: Deployable structures

Mechanisms for deployable structures

Deployable structures made from 2D mechanisms

Deployable structures made from 3D mechanisms

Rigid origami as deployable structures

Final Remarks

Biography

Zhong You is a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford and lecturer at Oxford University

Yan Chen is an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore