Articles | Volume 7, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/ms-7-201-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/ms-7-201-2016
Research article
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15 Sep 2016
Research article |  | 15 Sep 2016

Configuration synthesis of generalized deployable units via group theory

Tuanjie Li, Jie Jiang, Hangjia Dong, and Lei Zhang

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