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

Mechanical bistable structures have two stable equilibria and can transit between them
under external stimuli. Due to their unique behaviors such as snap-through and substantial …

Multistable structures have widespread applications in the design of deployable aerospace
systems, mechanical metamaterials, flexible electronics, and multimodal soft robotics due to …

Many active materials have properties that make them challenging to design with or limit
their utility, including having combinations of nonlinear, viscous, slow, or small responses. In …

This study thoroughly investigates the stability of a reconfigurable origami-inspired structure
using the Finite Element Method (FEM). We use the Kresling pattern to design this foldable …

Tensegrity trusses are a class of tensegrity structures which gain their structural integrity
from a network of pre-tension enclosing discontinuous compression members. They …