Mechanical bistable structures have two stable equilibria and can transit between them
under external stimuli. Due to their unique behaviors such as snap-through and substantial …

Existing mechanical metamaterials are typically designed to either withstand loads as a stiff
structure, shape morph as a floppy mechanism, or trap energy as a multistable matter …

The nonlinearities inherent in the mechanics of origami make it a rich design space for
multistable structures and mechanical metamaterials. Here, we investigate the multistability …

Multi-stable structures attract great interest because they possess special energy
landscapes with domains of attraction around the stable states. Consequently, multi-stable …

The use of origami in engineering has significantly expanded in recent years, spanning
deployable structures across scales, folding robotics and mechanical metamaterials …

Origami is a scale invariant paradigm for morphing robotics, deployable structures (eg
satellites, disaster relief shelters, medical stents), and metamaterials with tunable thermal …

Periodic origami patterns made with repeating unit cells of creases and panels bend and
twist in complex ways. In principle, such soft modes of deformation admit a simplified …

Multistable morphing structures can reconfigure between different stable states that are
separated by energy barriers, and one-degree-of-freedom (1-DOF) mechanisms have many …

This paper presents a computational framework for designing and analysing deployable
rigid folding plate structures by integrating Vector-based Graphic Statics (VGS) and Finite …

Multi‐stable structures can be reconfigured with fewer, lightweight, and less accurate
actuators. This is because the attraction domain in the multi‐stable energy landscape …