Abstract
This paper presents a set of deployable origami tube structures that can create smooth functional surfaces while simultaneously maintaining a high out-of-plane stiffness both during and after deployment. First, a generalized geometric definition for these tubes is presented such that they can globally have straight, curved, or segmented profiles, while the tubes can locally have skewed and reconfigurable cross sections. Multiple tubes can be stacked to form continuous and smooth assemblies in order to enable applications, including driving surfaces, roofs, walls, and structural hulls. Three-point bending analyses and physical prototypes were used to explore how the orthogonal stiffness of the tubular structures depends on the geometric design parameters. The coupled tube structures typically had their highest out-of-plane stiffness when near to a fully deployed state. Tubes with skewed cross sections and more longitudinal variation (i.e., that had more zigzags) typically had a higher stiffness during deployment than tubes that were generally straight.
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Acknowledgments
The first author would like to acknowledge support from the University of Michigan and the National Science Foundation (NSF) GRFP and GROW fellowship grants. The authors also acknowledge support from NSF Grant No. CMMI 1538830, the Japan Science and Technology Agency Presto program, and the Raymond Allen Jones Chair at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Volume 145 • Issue 2 • February 2019
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Received: Sep 14, 2017
Accepted: Jul 11, 2018
Published online: Nov 28, 2018
Published in print: Feb 1, 2019
Discussion open until: Apr 28, 2019
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