Deployable composite structures and mechanisms represent a frontier in materials engineering, where innovative fabrication techniques and advanced design principles are utilised to create lightweight, ...

Deployable structures and mechanisms have become a cornerstone of modern space engineering, enabling the realisation of large apertures, antennas, and other functional systems from compact launch ...

MIT researchers have developed a new method for designing 3D structures that can be transformed from a flat configuration ...

University of Illinois researchers 3D print flat carbon-fiber structures that morph into curved satellite components in space ...

Abstract: This work describes the approaches of fabricating soft deployable structures using smart materials based soft hinge actuators combining a soft matrix and hinge-like movement through a rigid ...

Abstract: Deployable and reconfigurable structures use shape-changing designs to transform between different forms and create usable structures, often from small initial packages. While these ...

In a joint project with NASA, DLR successfully tested booms for deployable satellite structures in an aircraft hangar in Braunschweig. The long-term goal of the cooperation is to test the deployable ...