Insight into mechanobiology: how stem cells feel mechanical forces and orchestrate biological functions

C Argentati, F Morena, I Tortorella, M Bazzucchi… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
The cross-talk between stem cells and their microenvironment has been shown to have a
direct impact on stem cells' decisions about proliferation, growth, migration, and …

Seventy years of tensegrities (and counting)

A Micheletti, P Podio-Guidugli - Archive of Applied Mechanics, 2022 - Springer
We try to make a long way short by proceeding per exempla from Kenneth Snelson's
sculptures and Richard Buckminster Fuller's coinage of the term tensegrity to modern …

Design and analysis of a growable artificial gravity space habitat

M Chen, R Goyal, M Majji, RE Skelton - Aerospace Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The goal of this study is to show the feasibility of designing a space habitat that advances
the ability of humans to live in space for long periods. We first review the previous work on …

Dynamics and control of clustered tensegrity systems

S Ma, M Chen, RE Skelton - Engineering Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents the formulations of nonlinear and linearized statics, dynamics, and
control for any clustered tensegrity system (CTS). Based on the Lagrangian method and …

Minimal mass design of active tensegrity structures

Y Wang, X Xu, Y Luo - Engineering Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
Tensegrity structures have been widely utilized as lightweight structures due to their high
stiffness-to-mass and strength-to-mass ratios. Minimal mass design of tensegrity structures …

Analysis of clustered cable-actuation strategies of V-Expander tensegrity structures

M Chen, A Fraddosio, A Micheletti, G Pavone… - Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study presents an analysis method to design cable-actuated clustered V-Expander
tensegrity elementary cells based on the nonlinear tensegrity statics. Clustered actuation …

Minimal mass design of clustered tensegrity structures

M Chen, X Bai, RE Skelton - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a minimal mass design approach to the clustered tensegrity structures
(CTS). By minimal mass, we mean, for a given clustered tensegrity structure subject to …

Design and control of tensegrity morphing airfoils

M Chen, J Liu, RE Skelton - Mechanics Research Communications, 2020 - Elsevier
We present a general approach of design, dynamics, and control for tensegrity morphing
airfoils. Firstly, based on reduced order Class-k tensegrity dynamics, a shape control law for …

Topology optimization of active tensegrity structures

Y Wang, Z Han, X Xu, Y Luo - Computers & Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
Existing studies on active tensegrity structure optimum design only focus on sizing and/or
shape optimization ie, the structural element topology does not change during the design …

Energy-efficient cable-actuation strategies of the V-Expander tensegrity structure subjected to five shape changes

M Chen, A Fraddosio, A Micheletti, G Pavone… - Mechanics Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents the energy-efficient cable-actuation strategy studies of the V-Expander
tensegrity subject to different shape changes based on the nonlinear tensegrity dynamics …