Abstract: This paper presents a method for predicting endpoint coordinates, stress, and force to deflect stepped cantilever beams under large deflections. This method, the mixed-body model or MBM, combines small deflection theory ...

Abstract: The ability to deploy a planar surface to a desired convex profile with a simple actuation can enhance foldable or morphing airfoils, deployable antennae and reflectors, and other applications where a specific profile ...

Abstract: Patients with skippedlevel disk degeneration (SLDD) were recently reported as having a higher prevalence of Schmorl's nodes than patients with contiguous multilevel disk degeneration (CMDD). Fourteen versions of a nonlinear ...

Abstract: A method is presented utilizing networks of lamina emergent joints, known as lamina emergent arrays, to accommodate largecurvature developable structures suited to deployable applications. By exploiting the ruling lines ...

Abstract: Of the many valid configurations that a curved fold may assume, it is of particular interest to identify natural—or lowest energy—configurations that physical models will preferentially assume. We present normalized ...