From Crease Pattern to Product: Considerations to Engineering Origami-Adapted Designs

Abstract

Origami art provides possible inspiration for products that require extreme portability, stowability, and deployability. Origami-based design represents a possible source of innovative configurations for engineered products, which could meet challenging design situations. However, a fundamental gap exists between paper-based origami art and engineered products. This work proposes a basic terminology for origami-based design, and presents areas of consideration for cases where the final engineering design is directly related to a crease pattern. The considerations are applied after the crease pattern has been selected for a given application. Four areas of consideration are discussed: 1) rigid-foldability 2) crease characterization 3) material properties and dimensions and 4) manufacturing. Two diverse examples are used to illustrate these areas of consideration: design for a backpack shell, and design of a shroud for an adjustable C-Arm x-ray device.

An Approach to Designing Origami-Adapted Aerospace Mechanisms

“…The C-arm shroud, shown in Fig. 1, is an example of an origami-applied design utilizing a combination of v-fold and Miura-ori fold patterns created with Tyvek, a paperlike polymer [1]. The design of this mechanism involved identifying a fold pattern that met the requirements and applying it without any additional adjustments, which makes it a direct application of origami to product design.…”

“…Engineers have taken an interest in origami and developing it further for applications. Characteristics of origami that are of interest to engineers include: (1) stowability, (2) portability, (3) deployability, (4) part number reduction, (5) manufacturability from a flat sheet of material, (6) a single manufacturing technique (folding), (7) reduced assembly, (8) ease of miniaturization, and (9) low material volume and mass [1].…”

Origami tubes with reconfigurable polygonal cross-sections

“…The continuous perimeter of the cross-sections could enable the tubes to be used in fluid flow applications. More traditional applications would involve primarily using these tubular origami as deployable pipe-like [4,15,16] or bellow systems [17,18]. These could have wide and varied applications including deployable pipes for construction, biomedical devices or inflatable space structure components.…”

“…Despite the higher complexity of manufacturing, origami tubes greatly extend the functionality of engineered thin sheet structures. For example, they can be used as deployable stents in biomedicine [14], as inflatable structural booms for space structures [15,16], or as actuators and bellows [4,17,18]. Origami tubes have a self-constraining geometry that makes them suitable for energy absorption devices [19][20][21][22].…”

A EVOLUÇÃO ARTÍSTICA E CIENTÍFICA DO ORIGAMI: Um estudo teórico e prático sobre a prática e técnicas das dobraduras

“…Para além da proposição principal, que era a participação ativa do espectador, as construções de Clark neste trabalho em particular são fundamentadas nos raciocínios das dobras. Mais ainda, por se tratar da transição entre o esquema de montagem em papel para o produto final em metal, os bichos de Lygia Clark foram um dos primeiros testes do que seria hoje a área mais recente e inovadora do origami aplicado a materiais rígidos: o chamado design do origami adaptado (MORGAN et al, 2016;FRANCIS et al, 2014).…”