For realizing foldable displays, transparent and robust cover window film consisting of hard
coating and the polymeric substrate should be developed. However, in terms of practical …

Compact packaging and smooth deployment reliability, lightweight and large operational
size are ideal requirements of inflatable space structures. Space inflatable antenna, one of …

Origami has become an important source for the development of mechanical metamaterials
because folding can often lead to enhanced or unconventional mechanical properties …

Steel flush endplate beam-column connections behavior is commonly described by the
moment-rotation, M-φ, relationship, which is characterized by two essential terms; resistant …

Limited stowage volume of launch vehicles demands compact packaging of large
deployable membrane structures. Employment of different folding approaches led to the …

As the electrons advanced toward foldable and lightweight characteristics, fabricating
polyimide (PI) substrates resisting large curvature folding under an ultralow folding radius …

With the advantages of lightweight and high stowing efficiency, the origami membrane has a
broad application prospect in the space structure. As an improvement of the existing …

Largely due to its geometry-endowed bistability, the origami waterbomb base offers wide-
ranging engineering potential. Here, we explore how nonzero crease curvature, which leads …

Creases are purposely introduced to thin structures for designing deployable origami, artistic
geometries, and functional structures with tunable nonlinear mechanics. Modeling the …

We investigate the dissipative mechanisms exhibited by creased material sheets when
subjected to mechanical loading, which comes in the form of plasticity and relaxation …