
Research and Applications in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation – Zingoni (Ed.)
© 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00061-2
A method for reconstructing the shape of highly flexible, slender objects
from distributed strain measurements
M.D. Todd
Department of Structural Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA USA
C.J. Stull
AET-6, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM USA
M. Dickerson
3 Phoenix Inc., Chantilly, VA USA
ABSTRACT: This paper presents a method for determining three-dimensional global displacement (for
arbitrarily-sized deformation but “small” strain) of thin rod/tether-like str ...