Tuanjie Li

Tuanjie Li
Xidian University · School of Mechano-Electronic Engineering

Ph.D.

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May 1999 - present
Xidian University
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A variable-width ring clover element is proposed for the design of a single-layer broadband reflectarray antenna (RA). The proposed element containing a clover patch and a variable-width ring achieves a nearly linear phase curve with a small slope. A set of almost parallel and linear reflection phase curves within the frequency range from 29 GHz to...
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Transparent objects are ubiquitous in everyday life, but how to detect them is full of challenges. Transparent objects hardly reflect light, and they usually transmit the appearance of their surroundings, making it difficult to distinguish them from their surroundings. Existing methods usually use only RGB (Red Green Blue) images as input, ignoring...
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Space deployable mechanisms typically employ modular designs, where each unit that can be independently deployed is defined as a generalized deployable unit (GDU), typically consisting of rigid components, flexible components and generalized kinematic pairs. Given the high-performance demands of spatial transmission mechanisms, generalized kinemati...
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This study examines the impact of electric solar wind sail (E-sail) parameters on the attitude stability of E-sail’s central spacecraft by using a comprehensive rigid–flexible coupling dynamic model. In this model, the nodal position finite element method is used to model the elastic deformation of the tethers through interconnected two-node tensil...
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Purpose This paper aims to solve the problem of the inability to apply learning methods for robot motion skills based on dynamic movement primitives (DMPs) in tasks with explicit environmental constraints, while ensuring the reliability of the robot system. Design/methodology/approach The authors propose a novel DMP that takes into account environ...
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To meet the operation requirements of mobile manipulators with high precision and low-jitter,a novel vibration suppression method for trajectory planning based on the modified asymmetry combined sine function(MACSF)is proposed. Firstly,aiming at the problems of acceleration mutation and instability in the start-stop phase of the traditional asymmet...
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A new kind of mechanisms named the generalized deployable mechanism is proposed and defined in this paper, which is made up of not only the traditional rigid members, but also the flexible components, springs, cables, pre-tensioned prismatic joints, pre-tensioned revolute joints, compliant hinges and so on. The extension basic-elements including th...
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Skill learning is a frontier problem in intelligent robot systems, which aims to make robots efficiently learn manipulation skills from human demonstration. In this paper, we propose a novel robot skill learning framework based on multi-task dynamic movement primitives (MT-DMPs) to improve the operation efficiency of redundant manipulators, which i...
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Internal parameters of non-smooth systems, such as hysteresis and gap systems, are unable to be measured when the system is enclosed. For a non-smooth gap system, the actual system state is difficult to be evaluated due to state transitions and the coupled internal mechanical and geometric parameters. Moreover, the system state evaluation directly...
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This paper makes a time-domain analysis of contact passive intermodulation (PIM) with vibration. A time-domain model is presented to quantify the relationship between uneven contact force and the electrical contact state by observing the test results of PIM with vibration and analyzing related research. The time-domain varying of three-order PIM po...
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The faceted surface is used in mesh reflectors to reflect electromagnetic (EM) signals. The matching design method of surface geometry is developed by considering EM performance. The geometrical model of faceted surface is established to avoid the facets overlap by using the force density method, and the far-field scattered by mesh reflector is der...
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A prestressed cable net structure is applied to shape and support the reflective surface of mesh antennas. The radiation pattern of an antenna highly depends on the positions of the cable net nodes. The pretension force and node positions of the cable net structure are strongly coupled. The deformation of the flexible support frame changes the posi...
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In this paper, we proposed two novel algorithms to improve the operating accuracy and operating efficiency of the 7-DoF redundant manipulator. Firstly, an improved adaptive particle swarm optimization (APSO) algorithm is proposed to improve the solution precision and solution speed of the inverse kinematics of the 7-DoF redundant manipulator by int...
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To meet the increasing communication demands, the satellites need to be equipped with the high-accuracy and large-aperture antennas. One of the effective methods to construct the modular antennas with ultra-high accuracy and ultra-large aperture is on-orbit assembly technology. During the on-orbit assembly missions, the assembly error is a key fact...
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In this paper, a universal and convenient optimization design method of the meshed transmission lines (TL) is presented. For optimizing meshed TL with the given characteristic impedance and propagation constant, the fast and accurate parameter characterization of meshed TL is a significant problem. A novel parameter extraction scheme is proposed to...
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Affected by the uncertainties caused by cable cutting and assembly errors, material performance dispersion, and truss deformation, the dual-surface accuracy of a mesh antenna cannot satisfy the design requirements. However, the existing methods can only adjust the accuracy of a single surface. This paper studies a method for adjusting coupled dual-...
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Modular space structure has become a research hotspot in the aerospace field. In the microgravity and weak damping space environment, modular space structures may continuously vibrate due to the transient excitation caused by satellite attitude adjustment or space debris impact, which will make the structure unstable. Therefore, a passive vibration...
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Tensegrity is a very attractive structure due to its unique advantages of self-equilibrium, lightweight, small compression volume, and low control cost. However, both the shape and the dynamic behavior of tensegrity are susceptible to environmental change, which has limited the development of the structure in high-accuracy applications. We develop...
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Affected by the alternating temperature field in space, the space deployable structure produces large thermal deformation, which leads to the deterioration of surface accuracy and performance. To achieve high surface accuracy of the deployable structure in the presence of model parameter uncertainties caused by manufacturing and assembly errors as...
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Purpose The inchworm actuator is widely applied in space industry. One of the major issues in space instrumentation is the reliability, especially under space thermal load. The purpose of this paper is to present a numerical calculation method for the inchworm actuator reliability with considering the effect of space temperature. Design/methodolog...
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The deployment of a modular truss antenna reflector is relied on the driven energy of the springs between the components of the structure. The deployment process is characterized by fast speed and large impact. In order to study the impact characteristics of antenna deployment on the boundary, the deployment dynamic analysis of a modular truss ante...
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Out-of-plane flexural and in-plane extensional motions are independently analyzed in available studies of multiple scattering due to the assumption of the consistent mid-plane between the scatterer and host medium. When mid-planes of the scatterer and the host medium are inconsistent, such as flat-bottomed indentations, the coupled out-of-plane fle...
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Because of manufacturing errors, measuring errors, and unpredictable service environment, the cable net structure to be further adjusted is in an uncertainty state. In this paper, the uncertain factors including elastic deformation, thermal deformation, and measurement uncertainties are considered as fuzzy variables, which are equivalent into fuzzy...
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Deployable space structure technology is an approach used in building spacecraft, especially when realizing deployment and folding functions. Once in orbit, the structures are released from the fairing, deployed, and positioned. With the development of communication, remote-sensing, and navigation satellites, space-deployable structures have become...
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As the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip tends to the larger storage capacity by die stacking, the 3D die stacking requires thermal modeling for fast temperature predicting and initial design. This work presents a theoretical model capable of fast calculating and optimizing the temperature of each die. The improved thermal network defines eq...
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The active shape adjustment of large-diameter mesh antennas has been widely explored for achieving high on-orbit performances. The surface reconfiguration of the cable net reflector is the essential precondition for active shape adjustment of mesh antennas. In this paper, we proposed a surface reconfiguration method based on the modal theory and tr...
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The negatively refracted flexural wave is explored for phononic thin plates consisting of periodic holes and inclusions based on the effect of backward waves. Dispersion curves of these two types of phononic thin plates are calculated by using the multipole method, and the backward wave effect has been clearly found in their band diagrams. By using...
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In order to enhance tribological performance of both water-based and oil-based lubricant, the SiO2 nanoscale ionic liquid (NIL), an amphiphilic lubricant additive, was prepared by using a sulfuric acid terminated organo-silane as corona and polyether amine as canopy. Various analytical techniques were used to characterize the SiO2 NIL and stability...
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State jump has been experimentally observed in space deployable structures working in alternating temperature environments. State jump is a phenomenon in which the geometric shape of the structure changes after the temperature loading and unloading process, which makes the working accuracy of the space deployable structure intrinsically unpredictab...
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Due to kinematic function requirements, deployable structures inevitably have many clearance joints. The existence of clearance joints not only reduces the structural stiffness but also leads to complex nonlinear dynamic characteristics. This paper proposed a general numerical method based on the wave motion theory, which is able to analyze these c...
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p>This paper presents a novel deployable hexagonal prism module for parabolic cylinder antennas that exhibit characteristics of geometric scalability. The hexagonal prism module consists of six basic rib mechanisms distributed along the axis and parabolic directions of the parabolic cylinder. The basic rib mechanism along the axis direction is desi...
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This paper proposed a novel plate-harvester system with local oscillators for energy harvesting of flexural wave propagation. The local oscillator inside a hole was constructed by a piezoelectric composite beam of which two ends were respectively anchored to the host plate and the inner plate. The semi-analytical model of the proposed plate-harvest...
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Indefinite chill (IC) roll and high speed steel (HSS) materials have been widely employed to manufacture work rolls as latter and former stands in hot rolling mills. The oxidation of work rolls is of importance for the surface quality of the rolled workpieces. The isothermal oxidation of the IC and HSS materials was conducted at 650 °C and 700 °C i...
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A piezoelectric ceramics (PZT) inchworm actuator is designed and tested in this work. The proposed actuator is mainly composed of a driving mechanism and two clamping mechanisms. The dynamical model of the actuator is established with considering the output nonlinearity of the PZT. The friction between the baffle and the clamping claw is calculated...
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Base oils containing different nanoparticles with varying concentrations are prepared, in which SiO 2 , TiO 2 and ZnO (20 nm) nanoparticles are employed to improve the lubrication performance. Their tribological properties are evaluated on a ball-on-disk tribometer. The results show that the nano-additive lubricants exhibit a good friction reductio...
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In this paper, single material beams as the basic structural members in the traditional periodic frame structure were extended to the ones of multi-material composite beam with locally resonant (LR) unit. Based on the spectral element method and the topological characteristics of structure, an assembly method of the stiffness matrix for virtual ful...
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This paper demonstrates the superlensing effect of flexural waves by phononic plates with the negative index of refraction. The phononic plate consists of a square lattice of spring-mass resonators attached to an infinite thin plate. The periodic resonator array induces a resonant band gap between the first and second dispersion curves of band stru...
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This paper proposes a semi-analytical method for flexural wave scattering by cylindrical annular inclusions of varying thickness on an infinite thin plate. The thickness of inclusions is assumed to vary in arbitrary power form along the radial direction. In the numerical method, analytically linear relationships between expansion coefficients of ex...
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Due to the time‐dependent load‐elongation characteristic of cables, the cable‐net reflector antenna shows a creep and recovery behaviour which has limited the development of the cable‐net reflector antenna with high frequency and high stability. Therefore, this study is dedicated to investigating a time‐dependent radiation pattern analysis method f...
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Offset-feed elliptical aperture reflectors have better mechanical and electrical performance than circular aperture reflectors and are an inevitable trend for the future development of high-precision space-borne antennas. The surface mesh geometry is crucially important to ensure surface accuracy and effective aperture of mesh reflectors. This pape...
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This paper investigates the generation of passive intermodulation (PIM) in coaxial connectors during vibration. A series of experiments were designed and the simulation model and method were proposed for understanding these phenomena. We found that PIM is mainly influenced by the contact stress and contact surface roughness during vibration. Thus,...
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During assembly of a cable-net reflector, surface adjustments must be made to meet the stick accuracy requirement of a space mission by changing the lengths of adjustable cables. It is desirable to find the optimum adjustment amount based on the current state of the cable-net reflector. However, all data needed to establish an accurate simulation m...
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In order to improve the stability of brushless DC (BLDC) motors at low speed, a high-stability position-sensorless control method is proposed in this paper. Because the back electromotive force (EMF) is very small at low speed, a novel algorithm is proposed to detect the zero crossing point (ZCP) of back EMF accurately. First, the line-to-line back...
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This paper investigated all-angle negative refraction phenomenon of flexural wave propagating on phononic thin plates. The phononic thin plate consisted of a host plate and a periodic lattice of multilayer cylindrical inclusions. A general multipole method was firstly developed to calculate the dispersion curves of phononic thin plates. With the pr...
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In order to satisfy the high efficiency and high precision of collaborative robots, this work presents a novel trajectory planning method. First, in Cartesian space, a novel velocity look-ahead control algorithm and a cubic polynomial are combined to construct the end-effector trajectory of robots. Then, the joint trajectories can be obtained throu...
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The accurate surface reconstruction of deformable reflectors is demanded by the onorbit surface adjustment of space antennas. This paper proposes a novel surface reconstruction method for deformable reflectors via combining Zernike polynomials with radio holography. First, the mathematical model of radio holography is derived based on Zernike polyn...
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When working in space environment, cable net structures suffer multisource errors including dimension errors, material parameter errors and external excitation errors. Thus, an interval force density (IFD) method was proposed for the pretension design of cable net structures under multi-errors to increase their performance robust and reliable in ou...
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Clearance is inevitable in the deployable mechanisms due primarily to the kinematic function requirements. This phenomenon affects the dynamic performances of deployed structures negatively. In this paper, the wave analysis of dynamic characteristics of planar structures with revolute clearance joints is developed by spectral element method. First,...
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The passive intermodulation (PIM) has gradually become a serious electromagnetic interference in the high-power and high-sensitivity RF/microwave communication system with the existence of the nonlinear metal-to-metal (MM) contacts. This paper proposes a finite difference time domain (FDTD) method for PIM analysis of nonlinear MM contacts. There ar...
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The space environments and special mission demands require large-scale and high shape accuracy cable net structures. The vibration control is an essential issue for shape control and performance conservation of large flexible cable net structures. This paper investigates the hybrid active wave/mode control of space prestressed taut cable net struct...
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This paper is concerned with elastic wave propagation and vibration band gaps in periodic beams formed by alternating combinations of various materials with the same geometric parameters. Such composite periodic systems have the similar feature of filtering characteristics of periodic beams. The study is performed by using an exact analytical appro...
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A mechanism composed of generalized links and kinematic pairs is defined as the generalized mechanism, which is capable of transforming motions and forces. It is an expansion of traditional rigid mechanisms and can better reflect the material characteristics. The constraint screw systems of limbs were constructed according to the screw description...
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The design of large high-precision antenna is one of the key factors restricting the application and development of antenna. This paper presents a design method for high precision large-scale umbrella-shaped antenna. Studies have been performed on the configuration, cable net forming, mesh optimization, error analysis and rib design to achieve the...
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We investigated the band gap structures in two-dimensional phononic crystals with composite scatterer. The composite scatterers are composed of two materials (Bragg scattering type) or three materials (locally resonance type). The finite element method is used to calculate the band gap structure, eigenmodes and transmission spectrum. The variation...
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Because the nonlinearity of contact junctions in a wire mesh is the main source of passive intermodulation (PIM) generation, this work aims to analyze the PIM problem of single contact junctions. This work first derives the formulas of micro-contact effects, which reveals the mathematical relationship between the contact force and the micro-contact...
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Due to the uncertainties of material, geometrical and load parameters, dynamic responses of actual engineering structures are uncertain. The paper investigates dynamic responses of uncertain frameworks by combining the interval method with the traveling wave method. The uncertainties of material, physical dimension and loads are firstly characteriz...
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Compared with traditional mechanisms, a new class of mechanism considering both the rigid and the flexible elements is proposed to satisfy the demands of modern engineering in this paper. This class of mechanism is named as generalized mechanism, and they consists of generalized links and kinematic pairs. First, based on screw algebra, we derive th...
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Cable-membrane structure is a kind of flexible tension structures, of which both cables and membranes are lack of bending and compressing stiffness. In order to reduce the nonlinearity and the strong coupling between its geometric shape and internal stress distribution to improve the computational efficiency and convergence, this paper developed an...
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For the passive intermodulation (PIM) problem of nonlinear contact on microwave connectors, an effective method is presented to improve the computational accuracy of PIM. First of all, the contact stress distribution on contact surface is analyzed by finite-element method based on the Weierstrass–Mandelbrot model. The contact stress and real area o...
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In this paper, a stress wave model is established to describe the three states (separate, contact and impact) of clearance joints. Based on this stress wave model, the propagation characteristics of stress wave generated in clearance joints is revealed. First, the stress wave model of clearance joints is established based on the viscoelastic theory...
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Pillow distortion has become one significant limiting factor to the development of space mesh reflector antennas toward large-scale extension and high surface accuracy. However, the current state of the art about pillow distortion have great limitations in practical application, because they are mostly based on the assumptions that the stress appli...
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Based on the elastic fracture mechanics, we establish a continuous model of one-dimensional Euler–Bernoulli cracked beam using the traveling wave method, and analyze the damage characteristics of cracked beam through the changes of deflection and power flow response. First, the control equation of bending vibration of healthy beam is deduced by tra...
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Passive intermodulation (PIM) is a complex problem in high-power microwave devices and satellite communications. In this paper, an effective calculation method is proposed for revealing the mathematical model between torque and PIM power levels of microwave devices. First, the analytical formula for the intermodulation voltage is derived based on t...
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The wire mesh of a space mesh reflector antenna is a core component that reflects electromagnetic waves, greatly influencing the functions of the antenna. Due to the complex weaving structure of the wire mesh, there are thousands of contact nodes per square meter. Therefore, modeling and analyzing the wire mesh becomes very difficult. It is both ti...
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Passive intermodulation (PIM) is a complex problem in high-power microwave devices and satellite communications. In this paper, an effective calculation method is proposed for predicting PIM power levels of the cascaded microwave devices. First of all, the analytical formula of intermodulation voltage is derived based on the nonlinear I–V character...
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In this paper, an alternative approach was developed for the form-finding of cable-membrane structures. The prestress of a triangular finite element was firstly equivalent to the axial force densities and uniform vertical loads on the three edges. The static equations and tangent stiffness matrices of the cable-membrane were then formulated with th...
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Compared with traditional mechanisms consisted of rigid links, a new kind of mechanism considering both the rigid and the flexible elements is proposed and defined to satisfy the demands of modern engineering in this paper. This kind of mechanism is named the generalized mechanism. The weighted topological graph and the corresponding adjacency and...
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The wave scattering method is presented to analyze dynamic response of frameworks with stochastic parameters. First, with the uncertain physical, geometric, and loading properties in consideration, the stochastic waveguide equations containing the axial, torsional and flexural wave modes are established. Second, the stochastic wave scattering equat...
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The wave motion equations of a tapered beam with respect to axial, torsional and flexural deformations are deduced including the transmission and waveguide equations. Combining the force equilibrium and displacement coordination conditions at the junction, we obtain the relation between the wavenumber and frequency, and the band gap properties of p...
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In the process of surface precision adjustment of cable net structures, the establishing variable configuration of cable net structures is the basis and precondition for implementation of surface adjustment. Due to the limitation of measurement errors and uncertainties, the measured information including node location, boundary conditions and cable...
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The generalized deployable mechanism is composed of generalized links and generalized kinematic pairs. The generalized links include the flexible members, springs, and cables etc. The generalized kinematic pairs include the preloaded kinematic pairs and flexible hinges etc. The generalized deployable mechanism consists of generalized deployable uni...
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The Schapery's nonlinear viscoelastic theory and nonlinear force-density method have been investigated to analyze the creep and recovery behaviors of space deployable mesh reflectors in this paper. Based on Schapery's nonlinear viscoelastic theory, we establish the creep and recovery constitutive model for cables whose pretensions were applied step...
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Mesh reflectors are uncertain structures because of the existing errors of dimension and material in the procedure of design and manufacture. These uncertainties have significant impacts on the mechanical and electrical properties, which must be considered during the design phase. Three directly related factors of cable uncertainties in mesh reflec...
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The main purpose of the paper is to investigate the effects of structural parameters of deployable reflectors on their mean cable tensions. The proportional relations between spatial and plane cable nets are firstly explored on the basis of projection principle. By the means of obtained proportional relations, the analytical expressions between the...
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This paper investigates a whole process for the form-finding analysis of cable net reflector antennas with creep and recovery behaviors in consideration. Both the force-density and nonlinear finite element methods are extended together to establish and solve the nonlinear optimization model for the form-finding analysis. First, the equal forcedensi...
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Microwave loads are used to improve the matching performance of circuits and absorb the microwave energy. The microwave loads generate the joule heat to affect the electrical resistivity after consuming microwave energy which may produce the passive intermodulation (PIM). Electro-thermal compling leads to the difference of the time scale which prod...
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Tensegrity systems have been used in several disciplines such as architecture, robots and antennas. However, just a few works in literature have addressed the possibility of using tensegrity systems in sensor applications. In this paper, a tensegrity based weighing machine was proposed. An energy method was used to perform the equilibrium analysis...