fcas: fibre composite adaptive systems

Adaptive systems in nature have an incredible stimulus-response coordination. The simplest type of response is a direct one-to-one stimulus response reaction. A change in the environment is the stimulus; the reaction of the organism to it is the response. Natural adaptive systems range from simple to complex configurations of sensing devices, actuators, controller logics and inherent energy generators.

Fibre composite adaptive systems comprises fibre optics as sensing devices, shape memory alloys as actuators and glass fibres to provide structural stiffness, all embedded within a resin based polymer in a sandwich structure of glass fibre reinforced epoxy resin.

For more information visit the dissertations featured at the Architectural Association website, the articles published at eVolo, Morfae, archdaily and our recently published book (ISBN-3843367256).