Origami engineering

D Misseroni, PP Pratapa, K Liu, B Kresling… - Nature Reviews …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Origami traces its origins to an ancient art form transforming flat thin surfaces into various
complex, fabulous 3D objects. Nowadays, such transformation transcends art by offering a …

Active materials for functional origami

S Leanza, S Wu, X Sun, HJ Qi, RR Zhao - Advanced Materials, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
In recent decades, origami has been explored to aid in the design of engineering structures.
These structures span multiple scales and have been demonstrated to be used toward …

Multistable inflatable origami structures at the metre scale

D Melancon, B Gorissen, CJ García-Mora, C Hoberman… - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
From stadium covers to solar sails, we rely on deployability for the design of large-scale
structures that can quickly compress to a fraction of their size,,–. Historically, two main …

Programmable gear-based mechanical metamaterials

X Fang, J Wen, L Cheng, D Yu, H Zhang, P Gumbsch - Nature Materials, 2022‏ - nature.com
Elastic properties of classical bulk materials can hardly be changed or adjusted in operando,
while such tunable elasticity is highly desired for robots and smart machinery. Although …

Plug & play origami modules with all-purpose deformation modes

C Zhang, Z Zhang, Y Peng, Y Zhang, S An… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Three basic deformation modes of an object (bending, twisting, and contraction/extension)
along with their various combinations and delicate controls lead to diverse locomotion. As a …

Rational designs of mechanical metamaterials: Formulations, architectures, tessellations and prospects

J Gao, X Cao, M **ao, Z Yang, X Zhou, Y Li… - Materials Science and …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Mechanical Metamaterials (MMs) are artificially designed structures with
extraordinary properties that are dependent on micro architectures and spatial tessellations …

Vibration control based metamaterials and origami structures: a state-of-the-art review

JC Ji, Q Luo, K Ye - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Vibration and sound control is critical to many practical engineering systems in order to
minimise the detrimental effects caused by unavoidable vibrations and noises …