Deployable Collapsible Origami

Origami the art of paper folding thus naturally provides inspirations for deployable structures.

Deployable collapsible origami. The antennas can also reconfigure their performance. Stituting pin joints and bars for vertices and fold lines in the crease pattern of a rigid. Origami has been employed to build deployable mechanical metamaterials through folding and unfolding along the crease lines.

A deployable structure is a structure that can reconfigure and change shape size mainly from folding and unfolding and has many applications from daily essentials e g umbrella vascular stents to solar panels for spacecraft. Origami has been employed to build deployable mechanical meta materials through folding and unfolding along the crease lines. Patterns in a deployed paper a deployable origami structure can be built by sub.

Deployable metamaterials are usually flexible particularly along their deploying and collapsing directions which unfortunately in many cases leads to an unstable deployed state i e small perturbations may collapse the structure along the same deployment path.