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Development of Everting Tubular Net Structures Using Simulation for Growing Structures

Authors :
Lukas Boxberger
Linda Weisheit
Sebastian Hensel
Julia Schellnock
Danilo Mattheß
Frank Riedel
Welf-Guntram Drossel
Source :
Applied Sciences, Vol 10, Iss 18, p 6466 (2020)
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
MDPI AG, 2020.

Abstract

Many living beings show the ability and necessity to develop invertible, tubular structures to enable additional functions temporarily. The biological archetypes always demonstrate a high change of volume of the structure between an inactive and active state. This makes the principle interesting for many technical applications, where a certain geometry or an additional volume has to be generated situationally for a task and can only be accepted temporarily, for example, in minimally invasive robotics. A possibility was sought to transfer the archetype into the technical context and to evaluate geometric-constructive dependencies based on an inversion of the structure. The result is a practicable design for repeatedly invertible net structures, which can be used for products with temporary additional functions and volumes.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20763417
Volume :
10
Issue :
18
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Applied Sciences
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.51d8299d592b467dbc841ada75a84a0a
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/app10186466