Programmable multi-stability of curved-crease origami structures with travelling folds

S Chai, Z Hu, Y Chen, Z You, J Ma - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Multi-stable structures capable of rapid switching among different stable states have seen
applications in various fields such as energy absorption, mechanical computing, and soft …

Multi‐Stability of the Extensible Origami Structures

K Xi, S Chai, J Ma, Y Chen - Advanced Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Multi‐stable structures and metamaterials with more than two stable states are widely
applied in diversified engineering applications. Non‐rigid foldable origami patterns have …

A review of curved crease origami: design, analysis, and applications

K Song, H Li, Y Li, J Ma, X Zhou - Frontiers in Physics, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Origami structures with morphing behaviours and unique mechanical properties are useful
in aerospace deployable structures, soft robots and mechanical metamaterials. Curved …

Bio-inspired programmable multi-stable origami

C Huang, T Tan, X Hu, F Yang, Z Yan - Applied Physics Letters, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
This Letter presents a programmable path to multi-stability of the Kresling origami by
introducing bio-inspired nonlinear creases. The origami mathematical model is proposed for …

Reconfigurable Thick-Panel Structures Based on a Stacked Origami Tube

Y Chen, X Zhang - Journal of Mechanisms and …, 2024 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Variable crease origami that exhibits crease topological morphing allows a given crease
pattern to be folded into multiple shapes, greatly extending the reconfigurability of origami …

Dynamic modeling and configuration transformation of origami with soft creases

H Han, L Tang, D Cao, Y Jian, P Hagedorn - International Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
Origami has attracted much attention from scientists and engineers in recent years. Classic
origami only permits rotations around creases, while origami-like structures in nature can …

Curved ring origami: Bistable elastic folding for magic pattern reconfigurations

J Dai, L Lu, S Leanza… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Ring origami has emerged as a robust strategy for designing foldable and deployable
structures due to its impressive packing abilities achieved from snap-folding. In general …

Self-locking degree-4 vertex origami structures

H Fang, S Li, KW Wang - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A generic degree-4 vertex (4-vertex) origami possesses one continuous degree-of-freedom
for rigid folding, and this folding process can be stopped when two of its facets bind together …

Asymmetric energy barrier and mechanical diode effect from folding multi-stable stacked-origami

H Fang, KW Wang, S Li - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2017 - Elsevier
Origami, the ancient art of paper folding, has evolved into a design framework of a wide
variety of engineering systems such as deployable structures and architected cellular …

Multistable bioinspired origami with reprogrammable self-folding

S Rojas, KS Riley, AF Arrieta - Journal of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Origami has emerged as a design paradigm to realize morphing structures with rich
kinematic and mechanical properties. Biological examples augment the potential design …