Structures inspired by the Kresling origami pattern have recently emerged as a foundation
for building functional engineering systems with versatile characteristics that target niche …

Origami structures with morphing behaviours and unique mechanical properties are useful
in aerospace deployable structures, soft robots and mechanical metamaterials. Curved …

Introducing origami with outstanding flexibility into thin-walled tubes can enhance their
energy absorption performance. This paper first proposes a cutting and folding-based …

Origami-inspired structures can manifest a range of interesting characteristics such as
reconfigurability and multi-stablity. Theoretically, the energy of rigid-foldable origami …

This study seeks to understand how bamboo maintains its stability while being lightweight
and flexible in strong winds, with the aim of applying the findings to develop an engineering …

Inflatable space capsules can be compactly folded to a small volume during launch and then
deployed in space to create a large enclosed place for astronauts and equipment. Current …

Folding a flat sheet under a specific crease pattern can form a three-dimensional origami
tube, which has been proven to exhibit unique mechanical properties and has wide …

Bistable shape-reconfigurable metamaterials can achieve large morphological changes
under a relatively low state-switching force and can maintain the configuration …

The classic Kresling origami structure has been widely studied in the past two decades
because of its interesting mechanical properties, including compressive-twist coupling …

Origami structure has been employed in many engineering applications. However, there is
currently no strategy that can systematically achieve stiffness-tunable origami (STO) …