Abstract

Origami engineering involves many steps, including selecting a pattern, accommodating for thickness, and choosing stabilization, damping, and deployment methods, the last of which is particularly important if the array is intended to self-deploy. Through metrics and case studies, this research strives to aid designers in creating origami-inspired deployable arrays. The approaches vary as each chapter focuses on a different aspect of origami engineering. By introducing a thickness accommodation technique and reducing complications with rigid-foldability (when applicable), this work shows how the geometrical structure can be modified to help the array stow and deploy. By providing quantitative and qualitative metrics for deployment techniques and demonstrating some of the most volume-efficient deployment methods in a self-deploying and self-stabilizing array, this work leads designers through a process for making an origami pattern into a functioning array.

Degree

College and Department

Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering; Mechanical Engineering

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