We investigate the out-of-plane shape morphing capability of single-material elastic sheets with architected cut patterns that result in arrays of tiles connected by flexible hinges. We demonstrate that a non-periodic cut pattern can cause a sheet to buckle into three-dimensional shapes, such as domes or patterns of wrinkles, when pulled at specific boundary points. These global buckling modes are observed in experiments and rationalized by an in-plane kinematic analysis that highlights the role of the geometric frustration arising from non-periodicity. The study focuses on elastic sheets, and is later extended to elastic-plastic materials to achieve shape retention. Our work illustrates a scalable route towards the fabrication of three-dimensional objects with nonzero Gaussian curvature from initially-flat sheets.
@article{arxiv.1806.10851,
title = {Shape-morphing architected sheets with non-periodic cut patterns},
author = {Paolo Celli and Connor McMahan and Brian Ramirez and Anton Bauhofer and Christina Naify and Douglas Hofmann and Basile Audoly and Chiara Daraio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.10851},
year = {2020}
}