Inflate in case of emergency: Generative design of a lightweight mobile high performance emergency shelter via the use of a computational intelligent method

Every year catastrophic situations such as earthquakes, wind storms, floods, environmental and socio-geopolitical changes periodically affect the living situation of thousands of people around the world.<br/>In order to face such catastrophes the proposed methodology intends to address the need of a rapid design tool for emergency shelters based...

Pressure adaptive honeycomb: A new adaptive structure for aerospace applications

A new type of adaptive structure is presented that relies on pressurized honeycomb cells that extent a significant length with respect to the plane of the hexagons. By varying the pressure inside each of the cells, the stiffness can be altered. A variable stiffness in combination with an externally applied force field results in a fully embedded...