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Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
How can origami help us think about storage space or emergency shelters?
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
How can origami help us think about storage space or emergency shelters?
In this episode, I feature a paper by Melancon and colleagues who explained how they drew on origami - the Japanese art of paper folding - for engineering design. In their work, origami principles served as inspiration for designing and building inflatable structures that stay in place after deployment and that can be switched between a variety of shapes. A desirable property for emergency shelters and even for space exploration.
Full citation:
Melancon, D., Gorissen, B., García-Mora, C. J., Hoberman, C., & Bertoldi, K. (2021). Multistable inflatable origami structures at the metre scale. Nature, 592(7855), 545-550.
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