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Origami offers a promising alternative for designing innovative soft robotic actuators. While features of origami, such as bi-directional motion and structural anisotropy, haven't been extensively explored in the past, this letter presents…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Shuai Liu , Sheeraz Athar , Michael Yu Wang

We introduce a simple and concrete way of visualizing in three dimensions a "flat" Klein bottle -- one whose local intrinsic geometry is the same as that of a flat plane -- which preserves most its topological and geometric structure.…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2021-01-25 Stepan Paul

Origami is the archetype of a structural material with unusual mechanical properties that arise almost exclusively from the geometry of its constituent folds and forms the basis for mechanical metamaterials with an extreme deformation…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-11-26 Zhiyan Wei , Zengcai Guo , Levi Dudte , Haiyi Liang , L. Mahadevan

In this paper, we show that deciding rigid foldability of a given crease pattern using all creases is weakly NP-hard by a reduction from Partition, and that deciding rigid foldability with optional creases is strongly NP-hard by a reduction…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Hugo Akitaya , Erik D. Demaine , Takashi Horiyama , Thomas C. Hull , Jason S. Ku , Tomohiro Tachi

We investigate how thin structures change their shape in response to non-mechanical stimuli that can be interpreted as variations in the structure's natural curvature. Starting from the theory of non-Euclidean plates and shells, we derive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-06-08 Matteo Pezzulla , Norbert Stoop , Xin Jiang , Douglas P. Holmes

Origami, which transforms flat sheets into three-dimensional shapes through folding patterns, has inspired the emergence of deployable systems in architecture and civil realms. Most existing origami-inspired deployable systems are based on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-19 Munkyun Lee

We study the dynamical regime of wave turbulence of a vibrated thin elastic plate based on experimental and numerical observations. We focus our study to the strongly non linear regime described in a previous letter by N. Yokoyama & M.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 Benjamin Miquel , Alexandros Alexakis , Christophe Josserand , Nicolas Mordant

Two-dimensional (2D) origami tessellations such as the Miura-ori are often generalized to build three-dimensional (3D) architected materials with sandwich or cellular structures. However, such 3D blocks are densely packed with continuity of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-02 Guowei Wayne Tu , Evgueni T. Filipov

Despite the apparent ease with which a sheet of paper is crumpled and tossed away, crumpling dynamics are often considered a paradigm of complexity. This complexity arises from the infinite number of configurations a disordered crumpled…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-07-04 Omer Gottesman , Jovana Andrejevic , Chris H. Rycroft , Shmuel M. Rubinstein

Folding of the triangular lattice in a discrete three-dimensional space is studied numerically. Such ``discrete folding'' was introduced by Bowick and co-workers as a simplified version of the polymerized membrane in thermal equilibrium.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yoshihiro Nishiyama

Rigid origami is a branch of origami with great potential in engineering applications to deal with rigid-panel folding. One of the challenges is to compactly fold the polyhedra made from rigid facets with a single degree of freedom. In this…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-05-15 Yuanqing Gu , Yan Chen

Shape-morphing structures have the capability to transform from one state to another, making them highly valuable in engineering applications. In this study, it is propose a two-stage shape-morphing framework inspired by kirigami structures…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-18 Xiaoyuan Ying , Dilum Fernando , Marcelo A. Dias

We report an experimental study of the development of orientational order in a crumpled sheet, with a particular focus on the role played by the geometry of confinement. Our experiments are performed on elastomeric sheets immersed in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-10-30 Anne Dominique Cambou , Narayanan Menon

Traditionally, origami has been categorized into two groups according to their kinematics design: rigid and non-rigid origami. However, such categorization can be superficial, and rigid origami can obtain new mechanical properties by…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Jiayue Tao , Suyi Li

This paper considers an extension of origami geometry to the case of "folding" a three dimensional (3D) space along a plane. First, all possible incidence constraints between given points, lines and planes are analyzed by using the geometry…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Jorge C. Lucero

Kirigami, the art of introducing cuts in thin sheets to enable articulation and deployment, has become an inspiration for a novel class of mechanical metamaterials with unusual properties. Here we complement the use of periodic tiling…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-08-12 Lucy Liu , Gary P. T. Choi , L. Mahadevan

Mechanical waves that travel without inertia are often encountered in nature -- e.g. motion of plants -- yet such waves remain rare in synthetic materials. Here, we discover the emergence of slow kinks in overdamped metamaterials and we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-22 Shahram Janbaz , Corentin Coulais

Origami, the traditional paper-folding art, has inspired the modern design of numerous flexible structures in science and engineering. In particular, origami structures with different physical properties have been studied and utilized for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-24 Rongxuan Li , Gary P. T. Choi

Transitions from reversible to irreversible or fluctuating states above a critical density and shear amplitude have been extensively studied in non-thermal cyclically sheared suspensions and amorphous solids. Here, we propose that the same…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-21 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Origami is the art of folding paper into various patterns without cutting or tearing the paper. By viewing the paper as the complex plane, we iteratively compute and record all intersection points to construct mathematical origami sets.…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Sara Chari , Andrew Quinn Macauley