Origami based Mechanical Metamaterials

We describe mechanical metamaterials created by folding flat sheets in the tradition of origami, the art of paper folding, and study them in terms of their basic geometric and stiffness properties, as well as load bearing capability. A periodic Miura-ori pattern and a non-periodic Ron Resch pattern...

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Main Authors: Lv, Cheng, Krishnaraju, Deepakshyam, Konjevod, Goran, Yu, Hongyu, Jiang, Hanqing
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4124469/