Folding Flat Crease Patterns With Thick Materials
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Author(s)
Ku, Jason S.
Demaine, Erik D
Date Issued
August 2015
Publisher
ASME International
Citation
Ku, Jason S. and Demaine, Erik D. 2015. "Folding Flat Crease Patterns With Thick Materials."
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Final published version
Abstract
Copyright © 2015 by ASME. 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 facetseparated 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.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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https://doi.org/10.1115/detc2015-48039
