Elastic shape morphing of ultralight structures by programmable assembly

• Published in: Smart materials and structures Vol. 28; no. 5; pp. 55006 - 55019
• Main Authors: Cramer, Nicholas B, Cellucci, Daniel W, Formoso, Olivia B, Gregg, Christine E, Jenett, Benjamin E, Kim, Joseph H, Lendraitis, Martynas, Swei, Sean S, Trinh, Greenfield T, Trinh, Khanh V, Cheung, Kenneth C
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England IOP Publishing 01.05.2019
• Subjects: adaptable structure; aeroelastic; cellular materials; programmable materials; shape morphing; ultralight

Ultralight materials present an opportunity to dramatically increase the efficiency of load-bearing aerostructures. To date, however, these ultralight materials have generally been confined to the laboratory bench-top, due to dimensional constraints of the manufacturing processes. We show a programm...