Deployable Structures and Biological Morphology

Abstract

IASS-IACM 2008 Session: Deployable Structures and Biological Morphology Session Organizers: Hiroshi FURUYA (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Hidetoshi KOBAYASHI (Osaka University) -- Plenary Lecture: Abstract, Slides and Video : "Folding and deployment of stored-energy composite structures" by Sergio PELLEGRINO (California Institute of Technology) -- Keynote Lecture: "Unfolding of potato flower as a deployable structure" by Hidetoshi KOBAYASHI, Keitaro HORIKAWA(Osaka University), Yoshinori MORITA (Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.) -- "Structural analysis for the multi-folding and deployable structures" by Masatoshi NAKAZAWA (Tohoku Gakuin University), Ichiro ARIO (Hiroshima University), Andrew WATSON (Loughborough University) -- "Deployment schemes for 2-D space apertures and mapping for bio-inspired design" by Christopher H. JENKINS, Jeffery J. LARSEN (Montana State University) -- "Microstructure of foldable membrane for gossamer spacecrafts" by Hiroshi FURUYA, Yasutaka SATOU, Yosuke INOUE, Tadashi MASUOKA (Tokyo Institute of Technology) -- "Natural twist buckling in shells: From the hawkmoth's bellows to the deployable Kresling-pattern and cylindrical Miura-ori" by Biruta KRESLING (Experimental Design and Bionics, Paris)