21st Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, 13-18 September, 1998
Paper ICAS-98-6.8.3

ADAPTIVE SELECTIVELY-DEFORMABLE STRUCTURES; NEW CONCEPT IN ENGINEERING

Amiryants G. A.
TsAGI, Russia

Keywords: adaptive, selectively-deformable structures

A new class of machine and engineering construction components -Adaptive Selectively -Deformable Structures (ASDS) -has been developed, with their main specific feature to be easily deformed in one "useful" direction while keeping rigidity in others thus providing assigned structure shape under external operational loads. The ASDS has been originated from the concept of active structural flexibility utilization and can be widely implemented in aerospace industry, in "smart" structures in particular, in terrestrial transport and water-carriage, in building constructions, medical and home appliances, damping devices of various functions. The main formula relations for designing techniques for an elementary cell as a major part of ASDSs are presented.

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