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One pull of a string is all it takes to deploy these complex structures

MIT researchers have developed a new method for designing 3D structures that can be transformed from a flat configuration ...
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Single string pull turns flat designs into 3D structures for modular space habitats

When a user pulls the string, the structure moves smoothly into its final 3D form. If the user releases the string, the ...
IEEE

In situ measurement of mechanical properties of polyimide films using micromachined ...

Abstract: Two in situ measurement schemes, using micromachined resonant string structures, for the measurement of the polyimide residual stress and polyimide/metal adhesion durability have been ...
INSPIRE

String Structures and the Index of the Dirac-ramond Operator on Orbifolds

We discuss the relationship between “string structures” and the topological class λ∈H4(M,Z) on non-simply connected manifolds. We also investigate to what extent the index formula for the Dirac-Ramond ...
INSPIRE

Differential twisted String and Fivebrane structures

In the background effective field theory of heterotic string theory, the Green-Schwarz anomaly cancellation mechanism plays a key role. Here we reinterpret it and its magnetic dual version in terms of ...