Chokri Cherif Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Textile Engineering, Applied Sciences
Technische Universit
Chokri Cherif is presently the Director of the Institute of Textile Machinery and High Performance Material Technology (ITM) at Technische Universität Dresden. He completed his PhD in the field of textile technology in 1998, followed by post-doctoral studies until 2001. After completing his studies, he worked as Assistant Professor at RWTH Aachen. In 2005, he accepted the professorship for textile technology at Technische Universität Dresden.
Research Article Open Access
Author(s): Cornelia Sennewald, Michael Vorhof, Gerald Hoffmann and Chokri Cherif
Flexible adaptive structures made from fiber-reinforced plastic composites (FRP) with defined stiffness and flexibility have repeatedly aroused the interest of international research groups in the past. The motivation for the development of such structures is to increase efficiency, save weight, extend the existing limits of
structure and tool design and integrate functions. One approach to avoid the contradiction of implementing structural flexibility on the one hand and stiffness, on the other hand, are pressure-actuated cellular structures (PACS), which have so far only been investigated theoretically. Weaving technology offers outstanding approaches to the implementation of such complex 3D geometries. However, there is a lack of methods for the form... view moreĀ»