Figure 1. Representative rollable structure: a tape measure (IMAGE)

Seoul National University College of Engineering

Figure 1. Representative rollable structure: a tape measure

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In typical rollable structures, the cross-section is flat in the storage phase so that it can wrap smoothly around a central hub, and transforms into a corrugated cross-section in the deployed phase to suppress bending and sagging.

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