Multi-Stability of the Extensible Origami Structures.

ABSTRACT: Multi-stable structures and metamaterials with more than two stable states are widely applied in diversified engineering applications. Non-rigid foldable origami patterns have provided an effective way of designing multi-stable structures. But most of them have only two stable states and therefore require a combination of many units to achieve multi-stability. Here, a series of extensible origami structures are proposed with generic multi-stability based on non-rigid wrapping origami. Through a kinematic analysis and experiments, it is demonstrate that a sequential folding among different layers of the structures is created to generate a continuous rigid origami range and several discrete rigid origami states, which consequently leads to the multi-stability of the extensible origami struct

SUBMITTER: Xi K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10582408 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature