While memory effects emerge from systems of wildly varying lengthscales and timescales,
the reduction of a complex system with many interacting elements into one simple enough to …

Limited stowage volume of launch vehicles demands compact packaging of large
deployable membrane structures. Employment of different folding approaches led to the …

Plant leaves, whose remarkable ability for morphogenesis results in a wide range of petal
and leaf shapes in response to environmental cues, have inspired scientific studies as well …

For origami structures, perforating or cutting slits along creases is an effective method to
define fold lines and alleviate stress concentrations at vertices. In this letter we show …

No longer just the purview of artists and enthusiasts, origami engineering has emerged as a
potentially powerful tool to create three dimensional structures on disparate scales. Whether …

Creases are purposely introduced to thin structures for designing deployable origami, artistic
geometries, and functional structures with tunable nonlinear mechanics. Modeling the …

This paper studies the unfolding mechanical behavior of a creased membrane with different
crease characteristics under tensile load. The three-dimensional unfolding shape measured …

We investigate the dissipative mechanisms exhibited by creased material sheets when
subjected to mechanical loading, which comes in the form of plasticity and relaxation …

Traditional origami starts from flat surfaces, leading to crease patterns consisting of
Euclidean vertices. However, Euclidean vertices are limited in their folding motions, are …

Mechanisms of drag reduction through shape reconfiguration have been extensively studied
on model geometries of plates and beams that deform primarily in bending. Adding an …