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Group member Yi Zhu successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled “An Integrated Framework for Fabrication, Simulation, and Design of Functional Origami.”

Posted on May 1, 2022 (May 30, 2024) by Jacob Pavelka
Yi Zhu, Graduate Student Research Assistant with Civil and Environmental Engineering inspects one of the many deployable and reconfigurable structures. Folding and adaptable structures based on the principles of origami can have practical applications ranging in scale and discipline from biomedical robotics to deployable architecture. Photo by Robert Coelius/Michigan Engineering, Communications and Marketing

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 (Oct. 2019) Prof. Filipov gives Invited Seminar at Northwestern UniversityThe paper: Wo, Z., and Filipov, E.T. (2022) “Locking Zipper-coupled Origami Tubes for Deployable Energy Absorption” was published in the Journal of Mechanical Design. 

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