Abstract: This paper investigates the geometry of a foldable barrel vault with modified Miuraori patterns, which displays a curvature during the motion. The principal of spherical trigonometry was used to obtain the relationship of ...

Abstract: This paper investigates the geometry of a foldable barrel vault with Yoshimura Origami patterns during the motion. On the base of the geometry analysis of the origami unit, the radius, span, rise, and longitudinal length ...

Abstract: Foldable structures, a new kind of space structures developed in recent decades, can be deployed gradually to a working configuration and also can be folded for transportation, thus have potentially broad application ...