Adaptive Structures, Robotics and Bio medics: A Perspective |Biomedgrid

Recently, some attention of the Aerospace Engineering field has moved towards smart or adaptive structures, and among them systems able to bear loads while deforming their shape or changing their geometrical configuration (morphing). Many issues must still be faced and completely overcome in order to practically implement such a kind of architectures, as illustrated in some representative textbooks [1-3]. The main of them, however, stands just in the foreword: creating structures that shall withstand external force with minimal deformation while having the capability to change their outline.