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A study is described into the use of triangulated cylinders as inflatable tubes. Triangulated cylinders are a new way to fold a tube; folding a thin-walled, soft aluminium tube as a triangulated cylinder gives a simple, efficient rigidizable inflatable tube. A major advantage of inflatable triangulated cylinders is that deployment is controlled, while the in-plane deformation for the tube wall remains small. The results of simple tests show the concept to be viable.
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Barker, R.J.P., Guest, S.D. (2000). Inflatable Triangulated Cylinders. In: Pellegrino, S., Guest, S.D. (eds) IUTAM-IASS Symposium on Deployable Structures: Theory and Applications. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 80. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9514-8_3
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