TY - GEN
T1 - Highly compressible origami bellows for harsh environments
AU - Butler, Jared
AU - Morgan, Jessica
AU - Pehrson, Nathan
AU - Tolman, Kyler
AU - Bateman, Terri
AU - Magleby, Spencer P.
AU - Howell, Larry L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 by ASME.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The design and testing of a highly compressible origami bellows for harsh environments is described. Several origami patterns are evaluated and the Kresling fold pattern was customized to constraints and selected for use in the bellows design. Origami bellows were prototyped in five different materials and tested in fatigue, thermal cycling, ablation, and radiation. Tested bellows show good fatigue life exceeding 100,000 cycles for some materials and resilience to potential harsh environmental conditions such as thermal cycling, abrasion, and high radiation. The bellows can be designed to fit within a given inner and outer diameter and stroke length depending on the design requirements. The origami bellows shows promise for space application and as an adequate replacement for current metal bellows due to its high compressibility and low mass.
AB - The design and testing of a highly compressible origami bellows for harsh environments is described. Several origami patterns are evaluated and the Kresling fold pattern was customized to constraints and selected for use in the bellows design. Origami bellows were prototyped in five different materials and tested in fatigue, thermal cycling, ablation, and radiation. Tested bellows show good fatigue life exceeding 100,000 cycles for some materials and resilience to potential harsh environmental conditions such as thermal cycling, abrasion, and high radiation. The bellows can be designed to fit within a given inner and outer diameter and stroke length depending on the design requirements. The origami bellows shows promise for space application and as an adequate replacement for current metal bellows due to its high compressibility and low mass.
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U2 - 10.1115/DETC2016-59060
DO - 10.1115/DETC2016-59060
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85007552143
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
BT - 40th Mechanisms and Robotics Conference
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 2016 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE 2016
Y2 - 21 August 2016 through 24 August 2016
ER -