A paradigm shift has emerged over the last decade pointing to an exciting research area
dealing with the harnessing of elastic structural instabilities for'smart'purposes in a variety of …

Deployable structures can realize the transformation from a folded configuration to a
deployed configuration to satisfy the requirements of applications. They have been widely …

Shape-morphing capabilities are crucial for enabling multifunctionality in both biological and
artificial systems. Various strategies for shape morphing have been proposed for …

Mechanical computing encodes information in deformed states of mechanical systems, such
as multistable structures. However, achieving stable mechanical memory in most multistable …

超材料是一类新型人工复合材料或复合结构, 特殊的微观或宏观内部结构设计使它们具有自然
材料不具备的超常物理性质. 超材料的发展经历了二维电磁超表面到三维机械, 热学, 声学 …

Origami engineering as an interdisciplinary subject brings thriving progress of mechanisms
innovation. In this paper, a construction approach from origami to multiple spherical …

Abstract Space deployable mechanism plays an important role in the orbital deployment and
stable support of the antenna reflection surface, which is an important component for the …

Bifurcation behavior analysis is the key part of mobility in the application of origami-inspired
deployable structures because it opens up more allosteric possibilities but leads to control …

This paper proposes a geometric method via isosceles trapezoids or isosceles trapezoidal
prisms (ITP) to approximate a smooth planar curve or a cylinder. The method is then …

This paper aims at investigating the mechanism theory and application of deployable
structures based on scissor-like element (SLE). The deployable structure has a wide …