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| Nonlinear loading and unloading of the 13 x 2 RVE metamaterial under tension in the vertical direction |
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| Co-rotational (a) beam element and (b) shell element |
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| Interchange between the fluid and the structure |
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| Shell and beam discretizations of the insect wing |
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| Wing deformation during flapping |
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| Wing tip displacement (top) and twist (bottom) versus flapping angle for 2 wings: L2B1 and L3B1 |
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| Fluid vorticity contours for 6 diferent wings |
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| Summary of research work on buckling/post-buckling optimisation of stiffened panels or shells |
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| Curved, corrugated panel under shear loading |
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| Critical buckling mode of the curved, corrugated panel under shear loading |
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| Various folded patterns that upon inflation can be deployed into long booms with cross sections like thin-walled cylindrical shells |
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| Deployment by inflation of cylindrical booms originally folded into two patterns (a) and (b) (See the previous image) |
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| Inflation of an aluminum triangulated thin-walled cylindrical shell |
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| Optimized cylindrical truss structures for combined axial compression and torque |
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| Arc-length method for tracking the primary equilibrium path of a nonlinear equilibrium phenomenon |
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