Shape morphing hinged truss structures

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Sofla, A Y N ^a   Elzey, D M ^b   Wadley, H N G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATED STRUCTURES; LINEAR DISPLACEMENTS; MINIMUM MASS; MULTI-LINK; PLANAR SHAPE; SHAPE MEMORY WIRES; SHAPE MORPHING; TRUSS STRUCTURE;

ACTUATORS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; ROTATION; WIRE;

TRUSSES;

EID: 68549136873     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/18/6/065012     Document Type: Article

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