Reconfigurable metamaterial that may both fold flat (AO2) in a sample aside from the unique (O3), or deploy into two distinct configurations (A2O and A3) which can be inflexible and load-bearing. Credit: Damiano Pasini et al.
Origami, the Japanese artwork of folding paper into ornamental shapes and figures, has lengthy served as inspiration for industrial design. The idea of folding has been used to construct reconfigurable buildings, which change their operate by altering their form. These buildings are promising for purposes akin to nanorobots for drug supply, foldable photo voltaic panels for aerospace, and morphable cladding and shading for structure. However, most of those designs can not bear heavy masses. Those that may are solely in a position to take action in a sure course, collapsing alongside the course during which they fold. This limits their use as structural supplies.
A examine by a gaggle of McGill University researchers might present an answer to this limitation. By merging ideas from origami and kirigami, the apply of folding and chopping paper, researchers developed a category of mobile metamaterials that may flat-fold and lock into a number of positions that stay stiff throughout a number of instructions.
“Their load-bearing capability, flat-foldability, and reprogrammability could be harnessed for deployable buildings together with sure submarines, reconfigurable robots, and low-volume packaging,” stated Damiano Pasini, Professor within the Department of Mechanical Engineering and lead researcher on the examine. “Our metamaterials stay stiff in a number of instructions, but rigidly flat-foldable metamaterials, attributes unprecedented within the present literature.”
The examine was revealed in Nature Communications.
Origami, kirigami encourage mechanical metamaterials designs
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Amin Jamalimehr et al, Rigidly flat-foldable class of lockable origami-inspired metamaterials with topological stiff states, Nature Communications (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29484-1
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