Our paper entitled “Structural Analysis of Curved Folded Deployables” was presented at the 2018 ASCE Earth and Space Conference April 9-12, in Cleveland, OH.
Research on coupled origami tubes published at PNAS
The new “zipper-coupled” origami tubes have one flexible mode through which they can deploy, yet they are substantially stiffer for other types of bending and twisting Continue Reading
(Sept. 2018) Prof. Filipov selected to participate in a U.S. National Academy of Sciences Frontiers Symposium.

This sixth annual Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium will be hosted in the Kuwait National Library (November 4-6) to discuss leading scientific advances Continue Reading
(Aug. 2018) Welcome Maria and Yi!!!

Yi Zhu (B.S. Tongji University, M.S. U.C. Berkeley) and Maria Redoutey (B.S. U. Michigan) have joined the Deployable and Reconfigurable Structures Lab as Ph.D. students. Continue Reading
(July 2018) Group member Zhongyuan Wo was selected to participate in the Student Poster Competition of the World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM).
The poster entitled “Geometric Implications for Stress Concentration in Miura Origami,” explores how the geometry plays a fundamental role in the distribution of stresses in such Continue Reading
(July 2018) Prof. Filipov wins the 2018 DARPA Young Faculty Award.
This Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project will explore micro-scale origami-inspired systems that can self-assemble, reconfigure, and adapt for new functions. See detailed story here
(April 2018) Research group member Steven Woodruff awarded the National Science Foundation GRFP Fellowship!!!
The fellowship will support Steven’s novel PhD research on the analysis of curved crease deployable structures. Read the CEE UMich News Story about this accomplishment.
Bar and hinge models for scalable analysis of origami

Bar and hinge models, which approximate the structural characteristics of origami, have been used as early as 2011, but in this paper, Professor Filipov and others Continue Reading
Origami tubes with reconfigurable polygonal cross-sections

In this paper, Prof. Filipov introduces and explores origami tubes with polygonal, translational symmetric cross-sections that can be reconfigured into numerous geometries. The main points of Continue Reading
Origami tubes assembled into stiff, yet reconfigurable structures and metamaterials

In this paper, Prof. Filipov showcases a special “zipper tube” origami design, which can change its shape by expanding and collapsing but is still stiff when Continue Reading