Mobile assemblies based on the Bennett linkage

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 461, Issue 2056, 2005, Pages 1229-1245

  Chen, Y ^a   You, Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bennett linkage; Deployable structure; Mechanism; Overconstrained

Indexed keywords

EID: 26944444709     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2004.1383     Document Type: Article

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