Geometry reconfiguration of a reflector with an auxetic material surface
Materials Science
2021-11-02 v1
Abstract
Mechanically reconfigurable reflectors can modify their geometries to realize large angle beam scanning. This paper studies a method for reconfiguring a reflector geometry from a standard parabolic shape to offset parabolic shapes with varies offset angles. To fulfil the geometry control, the coordinate change of the nodes on the reflector surface are studied with the coordinate transformation method. To accommodate the large deformation of the reflector surface, a negative Poisson's ratio (NPR) material is applied to the reconfigurable reflector.
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@article{arxiv.2111.00385,
title = {Geometry reconfiguration of a reflector with an auxetic material surface},
author = {Bin Xu and Houfei Fang and Shuidong Jiang and Yangqing Hou and Lan Lan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.00385},
year = {2021}
}