Journal
MECHANICAL SCIENCES
Volume 2, Issue 2, Pages 217-225Publisher
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/ms-2-217-2011
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Compliant mechanisms; Lamina emergent mechanisms; Origami; Orimimetics
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- National Science Foundation [CMMI-0800606]
- Directorate For Engineering [0800606] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Origami is the art of folding paper. In the context of engineering, orimimetics is the application of folding to solve problems. Kinetic origami behavior can be modeled with the pseudo-rigid-body model since the origami are compliant mechanisms. These compliant mechanisms, when having a flat initial state and motion emerging out of the fabrication plane, are classified as lamina emergent mechanisms (LEMs). To demonstrate the feasibility of identifying links between origami and compliant mechanism analysis and design methods, four flat folding paper mechanisms are presented with their corresponding kinematic and graph models. Principles from graph theory are used to abstract the mechanisms to show them as coupled, or inter-connected, mechanisms. It is anticipated that this work lays a foundation for exploring methods for LEM synthesis based on the analogy between flat-folding origami models and linkage assembly.
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