Morphing structures, defined as body panels that are capable of a drastic autonomous shape transformation, have gained importance in the aerospace, automotive, and soft …
Origami, the art of folding paper, has inspired the development of rigid foldable structures for various applications in aerospace, biomedical, and packaging applications. In order to drive …
Bistable laminates offer opportunities for shape morphing, energy harvesting, and flow control devices. Smart materials such as piezoelectric macrofiber composites and shape …
B Wang, Y Hou, S Zhong, J Zhu, C Guan - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Biomimetic structures are inspired by elegant and complex architectures of natural creatures, drawing inspiration from biological structures to achieve specific functions or …
S Ding, M Sun, Y Li, W Ma, Z Zhang - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper proposes a novel deployable panel structure integrated with a bistable composite structure and thick panel based on the thick origami technique. To overcome the …
Y Zhou, Z Xu - Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 2024 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Bistable soft robots are gaining momentum for their fast speed. This study presents a novel asymmetric mechanically prestressed, pneumatically driven, bistable laminated soft …
VSC Chillara, LM Headings, R Tsuruta… - Journal of intelligent …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This work presents smart laminated composites that enable morphing vehicle structures. Morphing panels can be effective for drag reduction, for example, adaptive fender skirts …
Morphing structures have received growing interest in aerospace structures and wind turbines due to their rapid shape-changing ability in response to the change in operating …
Y Liu, J Zhang, D Pan, Z Wu, Q Wang - Machines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Bistable or multi-stable structures have found broad applications in the fields of adaptive structures, flow control, and energy harvesting devices due to their unique nonlinear …