Deployable and Adaptable Structural Systems – Deployable and Reconfigurable Structures Laboratory

Rapidly deployable hulls and on-demand tunable hydrodynamics with shape morphing curved crease origami

Posted on October 10, 2024 (December 9, 2024) by Jacob Pavelka

In this paper, Hardik presents a novel deployable hull design for watercraft which utilizes curved-crease origami techniques. The primary contributions of the research include:

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Posted on September 27, 2024 (October 10, 2024) by Jacob Pavelka

Large-scale modular and uniformly thick origami-inspired adaptable and load-carrying structures

Posted on September 4, 2024 (September 4, 2024) by Jacob Pavelka

In this paper, Yi advances concepts in thick origami and introduces Modular and Uniformly Thick Origami-Inspired Structure systems. Some of the notable contributions of this work are: The creation of a single easy-to-fabricate panel that can be reconfigured into many structures, such as a foot-bridge or a bus station, and stored in compact configurations. The formulation of mathematical constraints that these reconfigurable structures need to satisfy to be "developable", "flat-foldable", and uniformly thick.