Design and stability of a family of deployable structures

DOI10.1137/16M1070293MaRDI QIDQ2827055zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas Lessinnes, Alain Goriely

Publication date 12 October 2016

Published in SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.07014

zbMATH Keywords

bifurcationelastic rodsmechanicssecond variationstability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analytic approximation of solutions (perturbation methods, asymptotic methods, series, etc.) of equilibrium problems in solid mechanics (74G10) Bifurcation and buckling (74G60) Rods (beams, columns, shafts, arches, rings, etc.) (74K10)

Abstract: A large family of deployable filamentary structures can be built by connecting two elastic rods along their length. The resulting structure has interesting shapes that can be stabilized by tuning the material properties of each rod. To model this structure and study its stability, we show that the equilibrium equations describing unloaded states can be derived from a variational principle. We then use a novel geometric method to study the stability of the resulting equilibria. As an example we apply the theory to establish the stability of all possible equilibria of the Bristol ladder.

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