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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 115, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.5115790
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- United States National Science Foundation, Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation [1634560]
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn [1634560] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Origami structures have gained tremendous attention due to their extreme kinematic performance. However, typical origami structures suffer from poor load-bearing capacity due to extreme slenderness of facets. In this letter, we introduce a technique to design an origami-equivalent compliant mechanism which preserves the origami kinetics and kinematics while offering higher load-bearing capacity compared to the original origami structure. In this technique, we offer an energy equivalence principle between the origami and the compliant mechanism. We validate the principle using experimental investigation for a square-twist origami pattern. This principle thus opens up a significant avenue for designing deployable and programmable structures. Published under license by AIP Publishing.
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