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Polymer Testing, 2022 There is an emerging trend in the morphing aircraft research where two or more morphing degrees of freedom are used on a wing which leads to the concept of polymorphing.
Dilshad Ahmad +2 more
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Bio-Inspired Active Skins for Surface Morphing. [PDF]
, 2019 Mechanical metamaterials that leverage precise geometrical designs and imperfections to induce unique material behavior have garnered significant attention.
Loh, Kenneth J +2 more
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Assembly of Advanced Materials into 3D Functional Structures by Methods Inspired by Origami and Kirigami: A Review [PDF]
, 2019 Origami and kirigami, the ancient techniques for making paper works of art, also provide inspiration for routes to structural platforms in engineering applications, including foldable solar panels, retractable roofs, deployable sunshields, and many ...
Chou T.‐K. A. +11 more
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Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering, 2022 Morphing wings with the ability of shape changing may enlarge the flight envelop of air vehicles. This is particularly important for small-scale aircrafts demanding maneuverability and adaptability in dynamic environments.
Liping Xiao +10 more
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Pterodactyl: Thermal Protection System for Integrated Control Design of a Mechanically Deployed Entry Vehicle [PDF]
The need for precision landing of high mass payloads on Mars and the return of sensitive samples from other planetary bodies to specific locations on Earth is driving the development of an innovative NASA technology referred to as the Deployable Entry ...
D'Souza, Sarah N. +6 more
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Furniture models learned from the WWW: using web catalogs to locate and categorize unknown furniture pieces in 3D laser scans [PDF]
, 2011 In this article, we investigate how autonomous robots can exploit the high quality information already available from the WWW concerning 3-D models of office furniture.
Beetz, Michael +2 more
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Kirigami‐Based Light‐Induced Shape‐Morphing and Locomotion [PDF]
Advanced Materials, 2019 AbstractThe development of stimuli‐responsive soft actuators, a task largely undertaken by material scientists, has become a major driving force in pushing the frontiers of microrobotics. Devices made of soft active materials are oftentimes small in size, remotely and wirelessly powered/controlled, and capable of adapting themselves to unexpected ...
Yu‐Chieh Cheng +4 more
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Shape morphing of complex geometries using partial differential equations. [PDF]
, 2007 An alternative technique for shape morphing using a surface generating method using partial differential equations is outlined throughout this work.
Gonzalez Castro, Gabriela, Ugail, Hassan
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A Kirigami shape memory polymer honeycomb concept for deployment [PDF]
, 2017 We present a shape memory polymer (SMP) honeycomb with tuneable and shape morphing mechanical characteristics. Kirigami (Origami with cutting allowed) techniques have been used to design and manufacture the honeycomb.
Chen, Jianguo +8 more
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2D multi-objective placement algorithm for free-form components [PDF]
, 2009 This article presents a generic method to solve 2D multi-objective placement problem for free-form components. The proposed method is a relaxed placement technique combined with an hybrid algorithm based on a genetic algorithm and a separation algorithm.
Bennis, Fouad +3 more
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