Abstract: The Canadian Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Enhanced Study (CAGES) was a 14-month period in 1998?99 during which there were enhanced measurements of water vapor, precipitation, snow cover, radiation, ...

Abstract: This paper investigates the geometry of a foldable barrel vault with modified Miuraori patterns, which displays a curvature during the motion. The principal of spherical trigonometry was used to obtain the relationship of ...

Abstract: Form-finding analysis is very important for developing innovative tensegrity structures. Nevertheless, it is frequently difficult to determine simultaneously the prestress mode and the exact nodal coordinates for a given ...

Abstract: Symmetry analysis is common and important, and the involved symmetry is in general self evident or manually recognized. However, for a structure with high-order symmetry or complex geometry, it becomes very difficult to ...

Abstract: This paper investigates the geometry of a foldable barrel vault with Yoshimura Origami patterns during the motion. On the base of the geometry analysis of the origami unit, the radius, span, rise, and longitudinal length ...

Abstract: Foldable structures, a new kind of space structures developed in recent decades, can be deployed gradually to a working configuration and also can be folded for transportation, thus have potentially broad application ...

Abstract: Pin-connected joints are characteristic of contacted bearing loads. With no consideration of the contact, the disadvantage for pin-connected joints to bear loads will be overestimated. Based on the Winkler elastic foundation ...

Abstract: Bifurcation behavior analysis is the key part of mobility in the application of origami-inspired deployable structures because it opens up more allosteric possibilities but leads to control difficulties. A novel tracking ...