
The Airshell Prototype
This paper by Alessandro Liuti, Sofia Colabella, and Alberto Pugnale, presents the construction of Airshell, a small timber gridshell prototype erected by employing a pneumatic formwork.
FROM CREASE PATTERN TO PRODUCT: CONSIDERATIONS TO ENGINEERING ORIGAMI-ADAPTED DESIGNS
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.
Origami art has potential for influencing future engineering product design, especially in systems where mass, stowed volume, or cost are to be minimized.
This influence may be as indirect as inspiring designers to consider folding in designs or to recognize the possible use of origami approaches in the design of new systems or the analysis of existing systems. But origami also has the potential of being a source of detailed design information.
As the potential benefits of origami-based design are becoming more apparent, it is important that resources become available to facilitate the design of origami-based systems.
As a beginning, this paper describes areas of consideration for the most straightforward of the origami-based design cases: when the final design resembles the origami model on which it is based.
These areas of consideration will be helpful in the design of related products by introducing a conceptual map of origamibased design, identifying key decisions in the process and developing an explicit thinking pattern.
These areas of consideration provide fundamental understanding in this emerging field and could serve as the foundation for future design methods, including those involving higher levels of origami-based design abstraction. Two examples are used to illustrate execution of these areas of consideration.
This paper by Alessandro Liuti, Sofia Colabella, and Alberto Pugnale, presents the construction of Airshell, a small timber gridshell prototype erected by employing a pneumatic formwork.
In this paper by Gregory Charles Quinn, Chris J K Williams, and Christoph Gengnagel, a detailed comparison is carried out between established as well as novel erection methods for strained grid shells by means of FE simulations and a 3D-scanned scaled physical model in order to evaluate key performance criteria such as bending stresses during erection and the distance between shell nodes and their spatial target geometry.
In this paper by Frederic Tayeb, Olivier Baverel, Jean-François Caron, Lionel du Peloux, ductility aspects of a light-weight composite gridshell are developed.
In this paper by Julian Lienhard, Holger Alpermann, Christoph Gengnagel and Jan Knippers structures that actively use bending as a self forming process are reviewed.
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