Elastic architecture: Nature inspired pliable structures

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 138, Issue , 2010, Pages 469-477

  Lienhard, J ^a,c   Poppinga, S ^b,c   Schleicher, S ^a,c   Speck, T ^b,c   Knippers, J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c Competence Network Biomimetics ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

architecture; biomimetics; deployable structures; elastic deformation; plant movement; pliable structures; variable stiffness

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; BENDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 78449272525     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/DN100421     Document Type: Article

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