5th International Conference on Mobile, Adaptable and Rapidly Assembled Structures (MARAS 2016)

Key Topics

• Disaster mitigation structures
• Rapidly assembled and mobile bridges
• Deployable systems and structural mechanisms
• Temporary structures and dwellings
• Origami-based folding structures
• Tensegrity and reciprocal frames
• Rapidly assembled kit-of-parts systems
• Inflated and air-supported structures and membrane shelters
• Mobile inspection platforms
• Leisure structures, demountable grandstands and scaffolding systems
• Rapid repairs of structures
• Folding and telescopic masts and gangways
• Trackways and prefabricated paving for roads and airfields
• Tower cranes and mobile lifting apparatus
• Zero gravity structures
• Protective structures
• Optimisation of transformable structures
• Construction and repair
• Design for re-use
• Kinetic structures
• Parametric analysis and design
• Adaptive building envelopes
• Engineering transformation
• Innovative approaches