An active structure is an engineering structure containing sensors and actuators that, when
active, modify the response of the structure to its environment. Research into active structural …

The main objective of this paper is two-fold. First, to conclude the overview about tensegrity
frameworks, started by the same authors in a previous work, covering the most important …

For any given animal, the sources of mechanical disturbances inducing tissue deformation
define environment from the perspective of the animal's haptic perceptual system. The …

The traditional structure can only rely on the original design scheme to passively resist the
changes in the external environment. Once the structure is damaged, it will bring heavy …

This paper presents the formulation of a new methodology to design adaptive structures.
This design method synthesises structural configurations that are optimum hybrids between …

The present paper is concerned with the formulation of new assembly methods of bi-material
tensegrity prisms, and the experimental characterization of the compressive response of …

A previously developed design methodology produces optimum adaptive structures that
minimise the whole-life energy which is made of an embodied part in the material and an …

Most active structures involve direct control of single parameters when there is a closed form
relationship between the response required and the control parameter. Building on a …

This paper presents progress in the field of adaptive civil-engineering structures. Self-
diagnosis, multi-objective shape control and reinforcement-learning processes are …

This paper gives a new formulation to design adaptive structures through total energy
optimization (TEO). This methodology enables the design of truss as well as tensegrity …