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Development of Everting Tubular Net Structures Using Simulation for Growing Structures
- Source :
- Applied Sciences, Vol 10, Iss 18, p 6466 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2020.
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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