Origami based Mechanical Metamaterials

By Cheng Lv, Deepakshyam Krishnaraju, Goran Konjevod, Hongyu Yu, Hanqing Jiang. Scientific Reports, 2014

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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 were studied. Unexceptional coexistence of positive and negative Poisson's ratio was reported for Miura-ori pattern, which are consistent with the interesting shear behavior and infinity bulk modulus of the same pattern. Unusually strong load bearing capability of the Ron Resch pattern was found and attributed to the unique way of folding. This work paves the way to the study of intriguing properties of origami structures as mechanical metamaterials.

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• Origami-inspired, on-demand deployable and collapsible mechanical metamaterials with tunable stiffness (2018, unknown): “In addition to deployable structures, origami recently has gained much attention as it has offered an appealing strategy on the development of 3D architectures across different length scales (3 – 5) and meta-materials with tunable properties (6 – 12).”
• Mechanics of stretchable batteries and supercapacitors (2015, methodology): “, bending rigidity and Poisson ratio, were studied through analytic modeling [48,49], while the detailed deformation and strain distribution were examined mainly through computational studies based on finite element analyses (FEA) [27].”
• Origami tubes assembled into stiff, yet reconfigurable structures and metamaterials (2015, background): “Among various rigid folding patterns, the Miura-ori has attracted attention for its folding characteristics (22, 23), elastic stiffness properties beyond rigid folding (24, 25), geometric versatility (26, 27), and intrinsic material-like characteristics (28, 29).”
• A review on application of mechanical metamaterials for vibration control (2021, background): “The use of foldable structures found applications in the automotive industry as airbags [91], deployable solar panels [92], foldable telescopic lens [93].”