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Investigation of Highly Flexible, Deployable Structures : Review, Modelling, Control, Experiments and Application Noémi Friedman Investigation of highly flexible, deployable structures : review, modelling, control, experiments and application Noémi Friedman To cite this version: Noémi Friedman. Investigation of highly flexible, deployable structures : review, modelling, control, experiments and application. Other. École normale supérieure de Cachan - ENS Cachan; Budapesti műszaki és gazdaságtudományi egyetem (Budapest), 2011. English. NNT : 2011DENS0060. tel- 00675481 HAL Id: tel-00675481 https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00675481 Submitted on 1 Mar 2012 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Ecole Doctorale Sciences Pratiques thèse THESE DE DOCTORAT N° ordre 61, avenue du Président Wilson - DE L’ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE DE CACHAN 94235 CACHAN CEDEX - FRANCE +33 1 47 40 75 77 - www.edsp.ens-cachan.fr Présentée par Civilité FRIEDMAN Noémi ENSC Mots clefs : structures déployables, structures transformables, antiprismatic pour obtenir le grade de Dans cette thèse, nous nous intéressons d’abord à de possibilités d’application des structures déployables en architecture et dans. l’industrie de construction. Le thème principale de la recherche a été l’étude des structures subissant de grandes DOCTEUR DE L’ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE DE déformations et en passent par état d’instabilité au cours d’un programme de chargement. Le but était la description générale du comportement mécanique d’un CACHAN système modèle d’une structure antiprismatique, auto-déployablée proposée par Hegedus. La plus grande importance a été mis sur exploitation du comportement de la Domaine : Génie Civil structure au cours de son emballement, de qui a été examine en considérant différentes possibilités de contrôle de procédure. En utilisant des simulations numériques, dont les résultats ont été vérifiés par les approches analytiques, on a clarifié le comportement mécanique du système anti prismatique, et on a donné des formules simple permettant Titre de la thèse : Investigation of highly flexible, deployable d’évaluer de principaux paramètres géométriques et mécaniques pour facilité le pré- dimensionnement de la structure. L’importance de l'influence de l’intensité et de la structures: review, modeling, control, experiments and application fréquence du déplacement relatif interne généré brusquement au cours d’emballement a été également étudiée. Dans le cadre de la thèse on a analysé également les caractéristiques mécaniques d’une système différent de la structure d’origine. Pour les deux différent systèmes structuraux on a préparé des modèles physiques expérimentaux, dont les résultat ont conduit aux nouveaux types des structures, lesquelles sont les structures spatiales pliables á plat. On a proposé alors quelques idées et schémas pour la possibilité d’application architecturale de systèmes treillis antiprismatiques. Keywords: deployable structures, transformable structures, antiprismatic, yoshimura pattern In this thesis, an extensive review on different transformable systems used in architecture and civil engineering is given. After the review, structures undergoing large displacements and instability phenomenon were highlighted. The main goal of the dissertation was to investigate the general behavior of a specific, immature self- Thèse présentée et soutenue à Cachan le 09/12/2011 devant le jury composé de : deploying system, the antiprismatic structure proposed by Hegedus. The emphasis was mainly taken to the analysis of the packing behavior. First, a simplified planar model was identified sharing similar, highly nonlinear packing behavior. For both the 2D and the 3D M. Jean-Marc ROELANDT Professeur Présidente structures numerical simulation of the packing was performed with different type of Mme Anikó CSÉBFALVI Professuer Rapporteuse controls and the results were confirmed by analytical investigations. The research M. Luc DAVENNE MDC, HDC Rapporteur clarifies the mechanical behavior of the chosen system, provides tools to simulate the structures Investigation flexible, highly deployable of packing of the structure, options for control, and gives very simple approximations for - M Antal LOVAS Prefesseur Examinateur main mechanical characteristics of the antiprismatic system in order to facilitate M. Adnan IBRAHIMBEGOVIC Professuer Directeur de thèse preliminary design and verification of the numerical results. The significance of snap- M. György FARKAS Professuer Co-directeur de thèse back behavior, occurring at the force-displacement diagram during packing was analyzed. Within the framework of the thesis a novel type of system, slightly deviating from the original one was also investigated. For the specific systems, small physical models were built and presented in this work, which led to the proposal of a novel type of expandable tube. An attempt was given to provide ideas for application of antiprismatic Nom du Laboratoire LMT structures by combining the investigated system and different learnt existing systems ENS CACHAN/CNRS/UMR ……….. from the architectural review. 61, avenue du Président Wilson, 94235 CACHAN CEDEX (France) FRIEDMAN Noémi FRIEDMAN ENSC……………. A thesis presented to the Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan and to the Budapest University of Technology and Economics by Noémi FRIEDMAN in fulfillment of the thesis requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Domain: Civil Engineering Title of the thesis: INVESTIGATION OF HIGHLY FLEXIBLE, DEPLOYABLE STRUCTURES: REVIEW, MODELING, CONTROL, EXPERIMENTS AND APPLICATION Supervisors: Prof. György FARKAS / Prof. Adnan IBRAHIMBEGOVIC Thesis to be presented and defensed in Cachan, in the 9th of december, in front of the jury members: Mr. Jean-Marc ROELANDT Professor President Mrs. Anikó CSÉBFALVI Professor Opponent Mr. Luc DAVENNE MDC, HDC Opponent Mr. Antal LOVAS Professor Examiner Mr. Adnan IBRAHIMBEGOVIC Professor Supervisor of the thesis Mr. György FARKAS Professor Co-supervisor of the thesis Laboratory name: LMT de Cachan ENS CACHAN/CNRS/UMR ……….. 61, avenue du Président Wilson, 94235 CACHAN CEDEX (France) HIGHLY FLEXIBLE DEPLOYABLE STRUCTURES PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT INVESTIGATION OF HIGHLY FLEXIBLE, DEPLOYABLE STRUCTURES: REVIEW, MODELING, CONTROL, EXPERIMENTS AND APPLICATION (MECANIQUE ET APPLICATION D'INGENIEUR DES CONSTRUCTIONS ELANCEES, NOTAMMENT DES STRUCTURES DEPLOYABLES ) by Noémi FRIEDMAN LMT de Cachan ENS Cachan 61, avenue du Président Wilson, 94235 CACHAN CEDEX (France) Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) Department of Structural Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering Rakpart 3. Budapest, Hungary, H-1111 2 HIGHLY FLEXIBLE DEPLOYABLE STRUCTURES PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This work presented in this thesis was carried out at the Department of Structural Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) and at the Laboratory of Mechanics and Technology (LMT-Cachan) at the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (ENS de Cachan) in a ‘cotutelle’ program. First I thank both my supervisors Prof. Adnan Ibrahimbegovic and Prof. György Farkas for their constant encouragement and guidance. A debt of gratitude is owed to prof. István Hegedűs for valuable theoretical discussions and guidance. I also would like to express my appreciation to dr. Gyula Greschik and dr. Mihály Weiner for taking their time to help me get along with some difficulties, and for sharing forward- going ideas. I owe a grateful thank to Prof Tibor Tarnai for lending me valuable technical papers and books on the subject and encouraging me to prepare some physical models, and to Flórián Kovács for his profound revision of the thesis and useful advises for correcting. The enormous help of Antal Schuchmann should be also herein acknowledged for his technical support in building the physical models. I would like to thank all of the colleges at the Department of Structural Engineering in Budapest and also the ones at the LMT de Cachan. The parallel doctoral program could not have been carried out without the scholarship received from the French Government through the French Embassy in Hungary, which I would like to herein appreciate. Last but not least, I would like to express my grateful thanks to my parents for their continuous encouragement and support in my whole life without which I could have hardly get to the level where this PhD thesis could be born and acknowledge my family; my husband Gabor Schuchmann and my two beautiful daughters Hanna and Hédi, their continuous love and enormous patience during working on this thesis. This work is connected to the scientific program of the ‘Development of quality-oriented and harmonized R+D+I strategy and functional model at BME’ project. This project is supported by the New Hungary Development Plan (Project ID: TÁMOP-4.2.1/B-09/1/KMR- 2010-0002). 3 HIGHLY FLEXIBLE DEPLOYABLE STRUCTURES DECLARATION DECLARATION The author declares that, except for commonly understood and accepted ideas, or where specific reference is made to the work of other authors, the content of this dissertation are his own work, and includes
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