deployable structures

The 12th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Smart Structures and Materials – SMART 2027 will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from June 28 to 30, 2027.

Within this conference, Jakob Scheidl (TU Wien, Austria), Alexander Humer (JKU Linz, Austria), and myself (University of Trento, Italy) are organizing the Mini-Symposium:

MS04 – Deployable and Sliding Flexible Structures

Composite tape-spring hinge (CTSH) is a simple yet elegant mechanical component for various deployable space structures. This paper formulates and addresses cut-out shape optimization of a CTSH, which is seldom touched upon in literature. Both the maximum strain energy stored during the folding process as well as the maximum bending moment during deployment were maximized in a concurrent way, and the multi-objective optimization problem was realized by merging data-driven surrogate modeling and shape optimization.

Liu, M., Domino, L., & Vella, D.* (2020). Tapered elasticæ as a route for axisymmetric morphing structures. Soft Matter, 16(33), 7739-7750.