On-demand tuning of mechanical stiffness and stability of Kresling origami harnessing its nonrigid folding characteristics

Z Li, V Agarwal, L Wang, KW Wang - Smart Materials and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Being adaptive with respect to changing operating conditions and the environment is an
imperative demand for advanced engineering structures. In this research, two Kresling …

Tunable multi-stability of conical Kresling origami structures utilizing local imperfections

L Fan, L Bo, R Xu, Y Chen, P Sareh - Advances in Engineering Software, 2024 - Elsevier
The classic Kresling origami structure has been widely studied in the past two decades
because of its interesting mechanical properties, including compressive-twist coupling …

Deployment behavior and mechanical property analysis of Kresling origami structure

J Zhang, C Wang - Composite Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
Kresling origami, a representative variant of origami, exhibits several distinctive features
such as multistable states, changeable stiffness, and compression-torsion coupling …

Tristable property and the high stiffness analysis of Kresling pattern origami

X Wang, H Qu, S Guo - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Kresling pattern origami is known for its bistable property, as confirmed by the truss model
used to analyze its dynamics. However, our theoretical research and folding experiments …

Multi-triangles cylindrical origami and inspired metamaterials with tunable stiffness and stretchable robotic arm

X Wang, H Qu, X Li, Y Kuang, H Wang, S Guo - PNAS nexus, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Kresling pattern origami-inspired structural design has been widely investigated using its
bistable property and the single coupling degree of freedom (DOF). In order to obtain new …

Unflat-foldable Square-Twist origami composite structure with bistable load-bearing capability

L Wang, Z Chen, W Song, Z Zhao - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2025 - Elsevier
Origami structures have attracted much attention owing to their ability to transform from flat
structures to three-dimensional structures by folding, and their rich mechanical properties …

Buckling-regulated origami materials with synergy of deployable and undeployable features

K Liu, P Li, Z Wang - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Origami is an emerging class of structural materials that can display remarkable physical
and mechanical properties due to its unique deployability, while simple combination of …

On the deployment of multistable Kresling origami-inspired structures

N Kidambi, KW Wang - … Technical Conferences and …, 2019 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Origami designs have attracted significant attention from researchers seeking to develop
new types of deployable structures due to their ability to undergo large and complex yet …

Out-of-plane compressive mechanical properties of square-twist origami folded-stable state

LC Wang, WL Song, X Guo - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Origami structures are widely favored by engineering applications due to their
reconfigurable characteristics and controllable mechanical properties. The square-twist (ST) …

Theoretical characterization of a non-rigid-foldable square-twist origami for property programmability

J Ma, S Zang, H Feng, Y Chen, Z You - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Using non-rigid-foldable origami patterns to design mechanical metamaterials could
potentially offer more versatile behaviors than the rigid-foldable ones, but their applications …