Nonlinear soil–structure behavior of a deployable and compliant anchor system

This paper presents a novel compliant geo-structural systems bio-inspired by awns on grass seeds for increasing anchor capacity while minimizing material usage. A compliant deployable structure is here defined as a system that reacts to global displacements by continued elastic shape change and awns are slender flexible structures rigidly connected to the exterior of an anchor. When the anchor is loaded in tension, the awns react off the soil...