Using Origami for Deployable Structures and Adaptable Metamaterials
Event details
| Date | 09.02.2016 |
| Hour | 09:30 › 10:30 |
| Speaker | Dr. Evgueni T. Filipov, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Thin sheets folded into origami can create a rich variety of deployable, reconfigurable, and mechanistically tunable three-dimensional structures. This talk will introduce a unique origami tube structure that deploys through a flexible mode, yet is substantially stiffer for any other bending or twisting deformation. Eigenvalue and structural analyses are used to quantify the global stiffness and highlight interesting mechanical characteristics of the origami systems. A variety of new structures and cellular assemblages are explored by changing the cross-sections, the three-dimensional layouts, and the coupling orientations of the tubes. The deployable structures are suitable for various applications in robotics, aerospace, and architecture. On a smaller scale, assembling thin sheets into cellular assemblages can create metamaterials that can be deployed, stiffened and tuned.
Deployment and retraction of a ‘zipper-tube’ can be achieved by actuating only at the right end of the structure and metamaterials with tunable stiffness.
Bio: Mr. Evgueni Filipov is an NSF Graduate Fellow and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He received his M.S. from UIUC in 2012 and his B.S. from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2009. His doctoral thesis focuses on the mechanics and analysis of origami-inspired systems created from thin sheets. His research interests include applying the principles of origami to create metamaterials with adaptable multi-physical characteristics. He is also involved in developing hinged folding structures with thickness for medium and large-scale applications.
Deployment and retraction of a ‘zipper-tube’ can be achieved by actuating only at the right end of the structure and metamaterials with tunable stiffness.
Bio: Mr. Evgueni Filipov is an NSF Graduate Fellow and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He received his M.S. from UIUC in 2012 and his B.S. from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2009. His doctoral thesis focuses on the mechanics and analysis of origami-inspired systems created from thin sheets. His research interests include applying the principles of origami to create metamaterials with adaptable multi-physical characteristics. He is also involved in developing hinged folding structures with thickness for medium and large-scale applications.
Practical information
- Informed public
- Free
- This event is internal
Organizer
- IGM
Contact
- Prof J. Botsis