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Sinossi

Deployable structures can vary their shape automatically from a compact, packaged configuration to an expanded, operational configuration. The first properly engineered deployable structures were used as stabilization booms on early spacecraft. Later on,

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Contenuti

Preface; Addresses of contributing authors; Deployable Structures in Engineering by S. Pellegrino.- Deployable Structures in Nature by J. F. V. Vincent.- Stealing Ideas from Nature by J. F. V. Vincent.- How to Fold a Membrane by S. Pellegrino and J. F. V. Vincent.- Elastic Folding of Shell Structures by S. Pellegrino.- Bi-Stable Structures by S. Pellegrino.- Infinitesimal and Finite Mechanisms by T. Tarnai.- Kinematic Bifurcation by T. Tarnai.- Matrices for Deployable Structures by S. Pellegrino.- Tensegrity Systems by R. Motro and N. Vassart.- Foldable Tensegrities by R. Motro et al.- Finite Element Simulation of Deployable Structures by M. Geradin.-

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