A Technique to Predict Clefting of Lobed Super-Pressure Balloons

A bistable structural element

A new concept for solid surface deployable antennas

A zero-stiffness elastic shell structure

article published in 2011

An introduction to the analysis of symmetric structures

Analysis of prestressed mechanisms

Analytical models for bistable cylindrical shells

artículo científico publicado en 2006

Authors' closure

Bistable prestressed shell structures

Bloch wave buckling analysis of axially loaded periodic cylindrical shells

Buckling pressure of “pumpkin” balloons

Co-phasing primary mirror segments of an optical space telescope using a long stroke Zernike WFS

Compliant multistable structural elements

Composite Tube Hinges

Concept and Design of a Multistable Plate Structure

Constitutive modeling of fiber composites with a soft hyperelastic matrix

Crease-free biaxial packaging of thick membranes with slipping folds

DEORBITSAIL: De-orbiting of satellites using solar sails

conference paper from September 2011

Deployable Tensegrity Reflectors for Small Satellites

Deployable helical antennas for cubesats

Deployment Dynamics of Ultrathin Composite Booms with Tape-Spring Hinges

article

Deployment mechanics of highly compacted thin membrane structures

Design algorithm for the placement of identical segments in a large spherical mirror

article published in 2015

Design algorithm for the placement of identical segments in a large spherical mirror

Design and Validation of Thin-Walled Composite Deployable Booms with tape-Spring Hinges

article

Design and testing of imperfection-insensitive monocoque cylindrical shells

Design of Ultrathin Composite Self-Deployable Booms

Design, fabrication and testing of active carbon shell mirrors for space telescope applications

Effects of Component Properties on the Accuracy of a Joint-Dominated Deployable Mast

Effects of Long-Term Stowage on the Deployment of Bistable Tape Springs

article

Efficient upper-bound limit analysis

article by Sergio Pellegrino published January 1988 in International Journal of Mechanical Sciences

Experiments on imperfection insensitive axially loaded cylindrical shells

Failure criterion for two-ply plain-weave CFRP laminates

Failure of Carbon Fibers at a Crease in a Fiber-Reinforced Silicone Sheet

First-order infinitesimal mechanisms

Folding Large Antenna Tape Spring

article

Folding and deployment of curved tape springs

article

Folding of fiber composites with a hyperelastic matrix

Folding of woven composite structures

Folding, Stowage, and Deployment of Viscoelastic Tape Springs

Further remarks on first-order infinitesimal mechanisms

High Precision Shaping of Deployable Membrane Reflectors

Imperfection-insensitive axially loaded thin cylindrical shells

article published in 2015

Large Strain Viscoelastic Model for Balloon Film

artículo científico publicado en 2011

Large retractable appendages in spacecraft

Manufacture of Arbitrary Cross-Section Composite Honeycomb Cores Based on Origami Techniques

Manufacture of Arbitrary Cross-Section Composite Honeycomb Cores Based on Origami Techniques

Matrix analysis of statically and kinematically indeterminate frameworks

Matrix formulation of macro-elements for deployable structures

Maximally stable lobed balloons

Micromechanics Models for Viscoelastic Plain-Weave Composite Tape Springs

Modelling of Seabed Interaction in Frequency Domain Analysis of Mooring Cables

Multi-objective optimization of free-form grid structures

Multilayer active shell mirrors for space telescopes

Nonlinear dynamic analysis of creased shells

Nonlinear vibration of cable-stiffened pantographic deployable structures

article

Numerical Approach to the Kinematic Analysis of Deployable Structures Forming a Closed Loop

Optimization of electrode configuration in surface-parallel actuated deformable mirrors

Optimized actuators for ultrathin deformable primary mirrors

artículo científico publicado en 2015

Origami Sunshield Concepts for Space Telescopes

Packaging and deployment strategies for synthetic aperture radar membrane antenna arrays

Parylene origami structure for introcular implantation

Post-cure shape errors of ultra-thin symmetric CFRP laminates: Effect of ply-level imperfections

Quasi-Static Folding and Deployment of Ultrathin Composite Tape-Spring Hinges

article

Rapid Design of Deployable Antennas for CubeSats: A tool to help designers compare and select antenna topologies

Review of Form-Finding Methods for Tensegrity Structures

Review of Form-Finding Methods for Tensegrity Structures

Self-Supporting Membrane Structures with Curved Creases for Smooth Packaging and Deployment

Shape Correction of Thin Mirrors

Shape correction of thin mirrors in a recongurable modular space telescope

Shape optimization of cover plates for retractable roof structures

Solution of equilibrium equations in the force method: A compact band scheme for underdetermined linear systems

Space Frames with Multiple Stable Configurations

Space-quality data from balloon-borne telescopes: The High Altitude Lensing Observatory (HALO)

scholarly article by Jason Rhodes et al published October 2012 in Astroparticle Physics

Stability of lobed balloons

Structural computations with the singular value decomposition of the equilibrium matrix

Systematically Creased Thin-Film Membrane Structures

Thermoviscoelastic models for polyethylene thin films

Thin-Shell Deployable Reflectors with Collapsible Stiffeners Part 1: Approach

Thin-Shell Deployable Reflectors with Collapsible Stiffeners: Experiments and Simulations

Topological Optimization of Compliant Adaptive Wing Structure

Trajectory Planning for CubeSat Short-Time-Scale Proximity Operations

UHF Deployable Helical Antennas for CubeSats

Ultra-Thin Highly Deformable Composite Mirrors

Ultralightweight deformable mirrors

artículo científico publicado en 2013

Using CubeSat/micro-satellite technology to demonstrate the Autonomous Assembly of a Reconfigurable Space Telescope (AAReST)

Viscoelastic behaviour of pumpkin balloons

Viscoelastic effects in tape-springs

article

Viscoplastic tearing of polyethylene thin film

Wrinkling of Orthotropic Viscoelastic Membranes

reduction of equilibrium, compatibility and flexibility matrices, in the force method