Browsing by Author "Beatini, Valentina"

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Cable-stiffened foldable elastica for movable structures

Beatini, Valentina; Royer-Carfagni, Gianni (Elsevier, 2013-11)

A structural element is proposed, made of a row of rigid voussoirs joined by a passing through cable. When the cable is tensioned, the ensemble acquires stiffness and, for appropriate contact profiles of the voussoirs, the ...
Shapes of Miura mesh mechanism with mobility one

Beatini, Valentina; Korkmaz, Koray (Multi-Science Publishing, 2013-06)

The Miura Ori is a mechanism composed by a polyhedral deployable surface. It has favorable qualities from engineering prospective that lead the growing interest on it. The present work focuses on its transmission of motion. ...