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Large-Scale Modular and Uniformly Thick Origami-Inspired Adaptable and Load-Carrying Structures
- Source :
- Nature Communications 15, 2353 (2024)
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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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 utilize high modularity for rapid repair and adaptability of shapes and functions; can harness multi-path folding motions to reconfigure between storage and structural states; and can exploit uniform thickness to carry large loads. We believe concepts of modular and uniformly thick origami-inspired structures will challenge traditional practice in Civil Engineering by enabling large-scale, adaptable, deployable, and load-carrying structures, and offer broader applications in aerospace systems, space habitats, robotics, and more.<br />Comment: Under review at Nature Communications
- Subjects :
- Physics - Applied Physics
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- Database :
- arXiv
- Journal :
- Nature Communications 15, 2353 (2024)
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2310.03155
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46667-0