Adaptive structure

Fibre Composite Adaptive Systems Project at Architectural Association by Sakthivel Ramaswamy, Konstantinos Karatzas and Maria Mingallon.

'Fibre composite adaptive systems' is a research project which emulates self-organisation processes in nature by developing a fibre composite that can sense, actuate and hence efficiently adapt to changing environmental conditions. Fibre composites which are anisotropic and heterogeneous offer the possibility for local variations in their material properties. Embedded fibre optics would be used to sense multiple parameters and shape memory alloys integrated in a fibre composite material for actuation. The definition of the geometry, both locally and globally would complement the adaptive functions and hence the system would display 'Integrated Functionality'.