...Venkatesan V.; Shanmugam S.; Veerappan A.R. Purpose This paper aims to present the numerical analysis of displacements, forces and bend angles of three different structural designs of a soft actuator using the finite element method. The results of this analysis help understand the physical...

...Jalal Javadi Moghaddam; Davood Momeni; Ghasem Zarei Purpose This research presents a design method for designing greenhouse structures based on topology optimization. Moreover, the structural design of a gothic greenhouse is proposed in which its structural strength has been improved by using...

...Venkatesan V.; Shanmugam S.; Veerappan A.R. Purpose This paper aims to study the influence of significant design parameters of elephant trunk soft pneumatic actuator and presents maximum optimized geometric structure of the actuator using finite element method. Design/methodology/approach...