Cable-Network Structures A New Approach to Form Finding, Optimal Design, and Shape Control

1. Introduction to Cable-Network Structures
2. Theory of Cable-Network Structures
3. Form Finding of Initial Equilibrium Configuration
4. Form Finding of Deformed Equilibrium Configuration
5. Shape Control of Cable-Network Structures
6. Large Deployable Mesh Reflectors
7. Evaluation of Surface Accuracy in Cable-Network Structures
8. Form Finding of Large Deployable Mesh Reflectors
9. Techniques for Optimal Design of Large Deployable Mesh Reflectors
10. Shape Control of Large Deployable Mesh Reflectors

Sichen Yuan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the College of Engineering, The University of Alabama. He received his master's and doctoral degrees from the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southern California. Before that, he earned his bachelor's degree from the School of Mechanical and Power Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. With many years of academic research experience, Professor Yuan's work covers a range of topics, including deployable structures, mechanical vibrations, micro-robots, artificial intelligence, and metamaterials. His research findings have been published in prestigious international academic journals such as the International Journal of Solids and Structures, AIAA Journal, Engineering Structures, and Acta Astronautica.
Bingen Yang is a Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southern California, where he has taught for more than three decades. Being an active researcher and author, his current research interests include modeling, analysis, and control of flexible structures and complicated dynamic systems, electromechanical systems, and computational methods for problems in engineering applications. A fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Dr. Yang received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.