Large-scale origami locks into place under pressure

Sigrid Adriaenssens ()

Nature, 2021, vol. 592, issue 7855, 510-511

Abstract: Inflatable, metre-scale origami structures have been designed to transform from flat structures into expanded forms and then to lock into their new shape. This technology opens the way to the use of large origami structures for engineering.

Keywords: Engineering; Materials science (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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