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Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems

Living Machines 2015: Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems pp 101–112Cite as

Biomimetic Approach for the Creation of Deployable Canopies Based on the Unfolding of a Beetle Wing and the Blooming of a Flower

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Modern architectural designs create dynamic and flexible spaces, able to adapt to the ever-changing environment by virtue of temporary and convertible structures. Biomimetics is the applied science that, through the imitation of Nature, finds the solution to a human problem. The unfolding of a beetle wing and the blooming of a swirl flower were recognised as having outstanding features to be mimicked for the creation of deployable canopies. This paper focuses on the analysis methodology of the two biomimetic, deployable structures with multiple degrees of freedom. The general validity of a pseudo-static analysis was proved based on time-stepping the geometry at set deployment stages with optimisation of multiple, potential deployment sequences.

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    Giulia Evelina Fenci & Neil Currie

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  1. University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Stuart P. Wilson

  2. Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

    Paul F.M.J. Verschure

  3. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

    Anna Mura

  4. University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Tony J. Prescott

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Fenci, G.E., Currie, N. (2015). Biomimetic Approach for the Creation of Deployable Canopies Based on the Unfolding of a Beetle Wing and the Blooming of a Flower. In: Wilson, S., Verschure, P., Mura, A., Prescott, T. (eds) Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Living Machines 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9222. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22979-9_11

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