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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES
Volume 478, Issue 2257, Pages -Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2021.0712
Keywords
conical Kresling origami; bistability; curvature programming; energy programming; inverse design
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [91848201, 11988102, 11872004]
- National Key R&D Program of China [2020YFE0204200]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2020TQ0006]
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This paper introduces a generalization of Kresling origami by using free-form quadrilateral unit cells to create diverse conical folded configurations. The conical Kresling origami is modeled with a truss system, allowing for analytical derivation of stable states and energy landscapes. This generalization preserves the bistable nature of Kresling patterns while enabling a wider design space for applications in various fields.
Kresling origami has recently been widely used to design mechanical metamaterials, soft robots and smart devices, benefiting from its bistability and compression-twist coupling deformation. However, previous studies mostly focus on the traditional parallelogram Kresling patterns which can only be folded to cylindrical configurations. In this paper, we generalize the Kresling patterns by introducing free-form quadrilateral unit cells, leading to diverse conical folded configurations. The conical Kresling origami is modelled with a truss system, by which the stable states and energy landscapes are derived analytically. We find that the generalization preserves the bistable nature of parallelogram Kresling patterns, while enabling an enlarged design space of geometric parameters for structural and mechanical applications. To demonstrate this, we develop inverse design frameworks to employ conical Kresling origami to approximate arbitrary target surfaces of revolution and achieve prescribed energy landscapes. Various numerical examples obtained from our framework are presented, which agree well with the paper models and the finite-element simulations. We envision that the proposed conical Kresling pattern and inverse design framework can provide a new perspective for applications in deployable structures, shape-morphing devices, multi-modal robots and multistable metamaterials.
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