Crease design is crucial to the function and application scope of origami projects; however, for the Yoshimura origami pattern, the connection between origami two-dimensional (2D) creases and three-dimensional (3D) forms has not been established, which greatly limits the research and application of...
A number of folding mechanisms have been proposed for spaceborne deployable booms/masts based on origami patterns. The packaging and deployment of a cylindrical boom with Yoshimura pattern are analyzed in this paper. At first, the detailed design of the Yoshimura pattern is discussed, and ...
origami-based structureYoshimura patternshape memory alloyIn this paper, a novel concept of the adaptive vibration isolator is presented. The proposed adaptive isolator is based on the thin-walled Yoshimura-patterned tube, which is able to reconfigure its shape to tune the stiffness. Multiple numbers...
Drawing inspiration from the biological concept of "morphological variation," we propose a novel tubular origami mechanism based on the Yoshimura pattern, which is the main contribution of this research. We analyze the Yoshimura planar crease elements and introduce both heterocellular and homocellular ...