Origami engineering

Make your own model of this folding NASA space technology designed to help capture the first images of planets outside our solar system!

Origami, a centuries old art of folding paper to achieve particular aesthetics, is inspiring a plethora of new engineering designs.

An approach to designing products based on adapting patterns and behaviors from origami is presented. The approach is illustrated by showing its capability for developing mechanism applications for aerospace-based systems. Origami has several attributes that are sought after in aerospace designs, such as deployability, stowability, and portability. The origami-adapted design process seeks to facilitate designers in reliably adapting origami into useful products that achieve desirable…

Brigham Young University researchers are developing an origami-inspired folding solar array that's compact at launch, expanding to around 10 times its size once it's deployed in outer space. When developed, it will fold down to a diameter of 2.7 m (9 ft) and unfold to about 25 m (80 ft) across.

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Packing soft-sheet materials of approximately zero bending stiffness using Soft Origami (origami patterns applied to soft-sheet materials) into cylindrical volumes and their deployment via mechanisms or internal pressure (inflation) is of interest in ...

The traditional waterbomb origami, produced from a pattern consisting of a series of vertices where six creases meet, is one of the most widely used origami patterns. From a rigid origami viewpoint...