On the synthesis of a bio-inspired dual-cellular fluidic flexible matrix composite adaptive structure based on a non-dimensional dynamics model

摘要

A recent study investigated the dynamic characteristics of an adaptive structure concept featuring dual fluidic flexible matrix composite ((FMC)-M-2) cells inspired by the configuration of plant cells and cell walls. This novel bio-inspired system consists of two (FMC)-M-2 cells with different fiber angles connected through internal fluid circuits. It was discovered that the dual (FMC)-M-2 cellular structure can be characterized as a two degree of freedom damped mass-spring oscillator, and can be utilized as a vibration absorber or an enhanced actuator under different operation conditions. These results demonstrated that the concept is promising and further investigations are needed to develop methodologies for synthesizing future multi-cellular (FMC)-M-2 structural systems.