Abstract: This paper presents a data-driven framework that can accurately predict the buckling loads of composite near-spherical shells (i.e., variants of regular icosahedral shells) under external pressure. This framework utilizes ...

Abstract: This paper presents comprehensive numerical studies on the instability behavior of metamaterial-based cylindrical shells (meta-shells) under axial compression. The cylindrical meta-shells are comprised of lattice-like ...

Abstract: Although Stewart platforms have been applied in the design of aircraft and vehicle simulators and parallel robots for many years, the closed-form solution of direct (forward) position analysis ...

Abstract: Various plants have the ability to follow the sun with their flowers or leaves via a mechanism known as heliotropism, which is powered by pressure gradients between neighboring motor cells. Adapting this bio-inspired ...

Abstract: Feeder-bus networks between urban rail transit systems and bus stops are inefficient in terms of the cost incurred by passengers, the time taken to reach the destination, and the number and frequency of feeder buses. To ...

Abstract: Vibrational microplatforms that exploit complex three-dimensional (3D) architectures assembled via the controlled compressive buckling technique represent promising candidates in 3D micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), ...