Large-scale modular and uniformly thick origami-inspired adaptable and load-carrying structures.

ABSTRACT: Existing Civil Engineering structures have limited capability to adapt their configurations for new functions, non-stationary environments, or future reuse. Although origami principles provide capabilities of dense packaging and reconfiguration, existing origami systems have not achieved deployable metre-scale structures that can support large loads. Here, we established modular and uniformly thick origami-inspired structures that can deploy into metre-scale structures, adapt into different shapes, and carry remarkably large loads. This work first derives general conditions for degree-N origami vertices to be flat foldable, developable, and uniformly thick, and uses these conditions to create the proposed origami-inspired structures. We then show that these origami-inspired structures can

SUBMITTER: Zhu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10942996 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature