An Extended Family of Rigidly Foldable Origami Tubes
An Extended Family of Rigidly Foldable Origami Tubes
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DOI：
10.1115/1.4035559
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发表时间：
2017-04-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
You, Zhong
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作者：
Chen, Yan;Lv, Weilin;You, Zhong
过去有报道称，带有开口端的刚性可折叠折纸管。在这里，使用机械构造过程，我们展示了这些管子可以被用作构建块来形成新的管子，这些管子可以通过单自由度(SDOF)刚性地折叠。介绍了一种组合工艺，以及将新的刻面插入到现有管中的可能性。该方法既适用于单层管材，也适用于多层管材的直型或曲型管材。我们的工作为设计人员在设计需要较大形状变化的管状结构时提供了极大的灵活性。这些结果可以很容易地用于建造从可展开结构、超材料到折纸机器人的工程应用的新结构。
Rigidly foldable origami tubes with open ends have been reported in the past. Here, using a mechanism construction process, we show that these tubes can be used as building blocks to form new tubes that are rigidly foldable with a single degree-of-freedom (SDOF). A combination process is introduced, together with a possibility of inserting new facets into an existing tube. The approach can be applied to both single and multilayered tubes with a straight or curved profile. Our work provides designers great flexibility in the design of tubular structures that require large shape change. The results can be readily utilized to build new structures for engineering applications ranging from deployable structures, meta-materials to origami robots.