Abstract:Shape morphing has been increasingly investigated as a solution to increase the functionality and efficiency of structures. The main criteria to assess the quality of a shape morphing structure in this paper are: accuracy of deformation and range and number of achievable target shapes. The lightweight lattice structures used in this work inherently address the first criteria. The focus of this work is to address accuracy and range by developing a nonlinear optimization method that can handle large shape change… Show more
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