Deployable structures can realize the transformation from a folded configuration to a
deployed configuration to satisfy the requirements of applications. They have been widely …

The demand for large antennas in future space missions has increasingly stimulated the
development of deployable membrane antenna structures owing to their light weight and …

Shape memory alloys (SMAs) have been widely used to fabricate soft actuators by
embedding SMA wires into various soft matrices manufactured by conventional moulding …

Deployable structure composed of smart materials based actuators can reconcile its
inherently conflicting requirements of low mass, good shape adaptability, and high load …

The membrane antenna technology is a very promising approach to obtain large aperture
with light weight and low stowed volume. In the past decades, extensive studies have been …

Deployable ring structures have been useful concepts for engineering design applications
due to their smooth transformation from an initially compact configuration to a substantially …

In this study, the networking method of Bennett linkages is investigated, and a deployable
parabolic cylindrical antenna is constructed based on the network. The alternative form of …

While being extensively researched in literature, overconstrained linkages' engineering
potential is yet to be explored. This study investigates the design of overconstrained …

Abstract Space deployable structures are widely used in aerospace engineering, which
have been addressed new folding methods, such as spatial overconstrained linkages and …

This paper is to propose a novel construction method for constructing a family of over-
constrained multi-loop deployable mechanisms by connecting orthogonal single-loop …