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National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 40(112), p. 12321-12326, 2015

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1509465112

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Origami tubes assembled into stiff, yet reconfigurable structures and metamaterials

Journal article published in 2015 by Evgueni T. Filipov, Tomohiro Tachi, Glaucio H. Paulino
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Significance Origami, the ancient art of folding paper, has recently emerged as a method for creating deployable and reconfigurable engineering systems. These systems tend to be flexible because the thin sheets bend and twist easily. We introduce a new method of assembling origami into coupled tubes that can increase the origami stiffness by two orders of magnitude. The new assemblages can deploy through a single flexible motion, but they are substantially stiffer for any other type of bending or twisting movement. This versatility can be used for deployable structures in robotics, aerospace, and architecture. On a smaller scale, assembling thin sheets into these tubular assemblages can create metamaterials that can be deployed, stiffened, and tuned.