Developing New Concepts and Design Procedures for DeployableStructures
{'Code': '07030000', 'Directorate': {'LongName': 'Directorate For Engineering'}, 'Division': {'LongName': 'Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn'}}
{'SignBlockName': 'Ken Chong'}
Deployable - collapsible structures have many potential applications,           ranging from emergency shelters and facilities, through relocatable,            semi-permanent structures, to space-station components.  A new                  concept of self-supported/self-stabilizied "clicking" structures -              featuring stable, stress-free states in both deployed and collapsed             forms - shows even higher promises.  Basic research will be conducted           to establish sound design principles for these structures, which                includes modeling of the behavior during articulation.  Engineering             research dealing with detailing, articulation mechanisms, effects of            imperfections and friction and using the developed modeling                     techniques is needed to make designs work in the real word.  Moderate           scale structures will be built to test both the modeling technique              and the design engineering.  The results of this project will be                proof of feasibility of large size "clicking" structures, and a set             of methodologies and tools for their design and detailing.
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{'Name': 'Massachusetts Institute of Technology', 'CityName': 'Cambridge', 'ZipCode': '021394301', 'PhoneNumber': '6172531000', 'StreetAddress': '77 MASSACHUSETTS AVE', 'CountryName': 'United States', 'StateName': 'Massachusetts', 'StateCode': 'MA'}
{'Code': '1442', 'Text': 'CONSTRUCTION AND INFRASTRUCTUR'}
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