Mechanical Engineering-CIME, November 1st, 1990
ADAPTIVE STRUCTURES Equipped with sensors and actuators, an adaptive structure can purposefully vary its geometric configuration as well as its physical properties. Examples include space cranes, swing-wing aircraft, electroheological fluids, and shape memory alloys. The performance required of future precision space structures has motivated a new approach to structural design, where feedback control principles and advances in sensors and actuators are integrated into the design of high-performance structural systems. This article is an overview of research into such structures (Figure 1). ...
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