Building a full-scale aluminium deployable scissor arch

Deployable scissor structures are capable of transforming from a small, closed or stowed configuration to a much larger, open or deployed state. In architecture, the main applications are temporary lightweight and mobile structures. One of the goals of my PhD-research is to gain a more profound insight in the structural behaviour of these structures. Towards this end an aluminium scissor arch was constructed at full-scale and experimentally analysed (Fig. 1). The aim was to compare the experimental results with the numerical results extracted from the current digital model. In this project the focus is put on the design, manufacturing, construction, deployment process and experiments.