Folding Flat Crease Patterns With Thick Materials
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Folding flat crease.pdf
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Author(s)
Ku, Jason S
Demaine, Erik D
Date Issued
March 2016
Journal
Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics
Publisher
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Citation
Ku, Jason S., and Erik D. Demaine. “Folding Flat Crease Patterns With Thick Materials.” Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics 8, no. 3 (March 7, 2016): 031003.
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Final published version
Abstract
Modeling folding surfaces with nonzero thickness is of practical interest for mechanical engineering. There are many existing approaches that account for material thickness in folding applications. We propose a new systematic and broadly applicable algorithm to transform certain flat-foldable crease patterns into new crease patterns with similar folded structure but with a facet-separated folded state. We provide conditions on input crease patterns for the algorithm to produce a thickened crease pattern avoiding local self-intersection, and provide bounds for the maximum thickness that the algorithm can produce for a given input. We demonstrate these results in parameterized numerical simulations and physical models.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Field Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4031954
