Research Focus:
Architectural Scale Deployable and Adaptable Structures
Deployable and adaptable structures have a benefit over other traditional ones because they are more efficient to fabricate, assemble, and reuse and can serve a variety of purposes in their lifespan. In this pursuit, the art of origami has often been a cornerstone of inspiration. While using thin sheets of material for structural systems is typically insufficient, we explore methods of exploiting geometry to maximize the utilization of the sheet’s in-plane stiffness.
Deployable and Adaptable Structural Systems
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Stiffening multi-stable origami tubes by outward popping of creases
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Designing continuous equilibrium structures that counteract gravity in any orientation
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Rapidly deployable hulls and on-demand tunable hydrodynamics with shape morphing curved crease origami
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Large-scale modular and uniformly thick origami-inspired adaptable and load-carrying structures
Properties of Origami Structures
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Origami of Multi-layered Spaced Sheets
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Origami tubes with reconfigurable polygonal cross-sections
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Origami tubes assembled into stiff, yet reconfigurable structures and metamaterials
Analysis Methods for Reconfigurable Structures
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Bar and hinge models for scalable analysis of origami