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Folding behaviour of Tachi–Miura polyhedron bellows

2013; Royal Society; Volume: 469; Issue: 2159 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1098/rspa.2013.0351

1471-2946

Hiromi Yasuda, Thu Yein, Tomohiro Tachi, Koryo Miura, Minoru Taya,

Structural Analysis and Optimization

In this paper, we examine the folding behaviour of Tachi-Miura polyhedron (TMP) bellows made of paper, which is known as a rigid-foldable structure, and construct a theoretical model to predict the mechanical energy associated with the compression of TMP bellows, which is compared with the experimentally measured energy, resulting in the gap between the mechanical work by the compression force and the bending energy distributed along all the crease lines. The extended Hamilton's principle is applied to explain the gap which is considered to be energy dissipation in the mechanical behaviour of TMP bellows.