TY - GEN
T1 - Differentiating bending from folding in origami engineering using active materials
AU - Lauff, Carlye
AU - Simpson, Timothy W.
AU - Frecker, Mary
AU - Ounaies, Zoubeida
AU - Ahmed, Saad
AU - Von Lockette, Paris
AU - Strzelec, Rebecca
AU - Sheridan, Robert
AU - Lien, Jyh Ming
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2014 by ASME.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Origami engineering - the use of origami principles in engineering applications - provides numerous opportunities to revolutionize the way we design, manufacture, assemble, and package products and devices. By combining origami principles with active materials, we can create reconfigurable products and devices that can fold and unfold on demand. In origami, the folded medium is paper, yet many engineering applications require materials with finite thickness to provide the necessary strength and stiffness to achieve the desired functionality. In such applications, it is important to distinguish between bending and folding so that we understand the differences in material behavior when actuated. In this paper, we propose definitions for bending and folding for materials used in engineering applications. The literature is reviewed in detail to provide context and support for the proposed definitions, and examples from our own research with active materials, specifically, magneto-active elastomers (MAE) and dielectric elastomers (DE), are used to illustrate the subtle, yet important, differences between bending and folding in materials with finite thickness.
AB - Origami engineering - the use of origami principles in engineering applications - provides numerous opportunities to revolutionize the way we design, manufacture, assemble, and package products and devices. By combining origami principles with active materials, we can create reconfigurable products and devices that can fold and unfold on demand. In origami, the folded medium is paper, yet many engineering applications require materials with finite thickness to provide the necessary strength and stiffness to achieve the desired functionality. In such applications, it is important to distinguish between bending and folding so that we understand the differences in material behavior when actuated. In this paper, we propose definitions for bending and folding for materials used in engineering applications. The literature is reviewed in detail to provide context and support for the proposed definitions, and examples from our own research with active materials, specifically, magneto-active elastomers (MAE) and dielectric elastomers (DE), are used to illustrate the subtle, yet important, differences between bending and folding in materials with finite thickness.
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U2 - 10.1115/DETC201434702
DO - 10.1115/DETC201434702
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84961335189
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
BT - 38th Mechanisms and Robotics Conference
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 2014 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE 2014
Y2 - 17 August 2014 through 20 August 2014
ER -