Motion Structures Deployable structural assemblies of mechanisms

• Main Authors: You, Zhong, Chen, Yan
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: London CRC Press 2011; Spon Press, an imprint of Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: 6R Frame; 6R Linkage; 6R Loop; Angulated Beams; Buildings; Buildings > Joints; Buildings > Mechanical equipment; Civil; Civil engineering, surveying and building; Compact Folding; Complex Number Notation; Cycle Time; Deployable structures; Deployable structures made from 2D mechanisms; Deployable structures made from 3D mechanisms; Deployment Angles; Double Chain; Environmental science, engineering and technology; Expansion Sequence; Flexible structures; Input Output Curve; Intersecting Elements; Joints; Mechanical engineering; Mechanical engineering and materials; Mechanical equipment; Mechanical movements; Mechanisms for deployable structures; Minimum Invasive Surgery; Mobile Assembly; Motion Structures; Pivoting Angle; Prismatic Joint; Revolute Joints; Rigid origami; Structural; Technology & Engineering; Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes; Uniform Tilings; Vice Versa; pivoting; joint; Intermediate Tie; compact; folding; Deployment Angles; Compact Folding; linkage; Vice Versa; Cycle Time; Swimming Pool Cover; Uniform Tilings; Revolute Joints; assembly; angle; Motion Structures; Input Output Curve; Fixed Reference Frame; Minimum Invasive Surgery; closure; Double Chain; revolute; 6R Frame; Prismatic Joint; Pivoting Angle; Regular Polygons; mobile; Angulated Beams; Mobility Conditions; 6R Loop; Mobile Assembly; 6R Linkage; Intersecting Elements; Complex Number Notation; Expansion Sequence
• ISBN: 9780415554893; 0415554896; 0367865572; 9780367865573; 9780429176463; 9781000787443; 0429176465; 9781482266610; 148226661X; 1000787443
• DOI: 10.1201/9781482266610

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 they can be used in: shelters, emergency structures and exhibition stands aircraft morphing wings satellite solar panels and space antennas morphing core materials for composites medical implants for minimum invasive surgery. Though traditionally the subject falls within structural engineering, motion structures are more closely related to other mechanisms, and they draw on the principles of kinematic and geometrical analysis in their design. Indeed their design and analysis can be viewed as an extension of the theory of mechanisms, such as rigid origami, and can make effective use of a wealth of mathematical principles. This book outlines the relevant underlying theory of motion structural concepts, and uses a number of innovative but simple structures as examples.