08 Jul

For the past few days, I have been studing the mechanical behaviors of accordion shape folded structures. I have also been studying the science of paper sheet, which is quite complicated. I have developed a mathematical model to predict the in-plane stiffness of both single-layered accordion shape f...

25 Jun

I did some research on different models to predict behaviors of foldable structures. The most useful (simple but sufficient) model for me to use is called "Bar-Hinge Model". It simplified foldable structures into bars and nodes. It can track the in-plane stretching and out-of-plane bending.