In the past decades, many mechanical metamaterials with uncommon static properties have
been reported. On the other hand, mechanical metamaterials possessing extraordinary …

Materials with customized thermal expansion, capable of avoiding thermal failure or
distortion of structures and devices, are vital for aerospace, civil, biomedical, optics and …

This paper addresses the issue of buckling in slender tubes under axial compression by
introducing the Miura-ori origami configuration to study its impact on the buckling …