Article | 28-August-2018
A pantograph is a foldable structure which consists of scissor link units. A unit consists of two bars elements which are capable of rotating about their intermediate pivot node. The pantographic structures are generally utilized in flat (like roof), cylindrical (like barrel), and spherical (like dome) deployable structure and they are not used in anticlastic structure like hyperbolic parabolic (HP) structure. The HP surface may form when a convex parabolic goes on the length of concave ones
Arash OSMANI,
Mohammad Reza MATINI,
Yaser SHAHBAZI,
Hossein GOLLABI
Architecture, Civil Engineering, Environment, Volume 10 , ISSUE 4, 89–99