Abstract: Abstract. Kirigami, as a scientific concept that emerges with but distinguishes from origami, provides a paradigm for engineering the mechanical properties of a surface through geometric analysis. The cutting geometry ...

Abstract: Paulino and Jin [Paulino, G. H., and Jin, Z.-H., 2001, “Correspondence Principle in Viscoelastic Functionally Graded Materials,” ASME J. Appl. Mech., 68 , pp. 129–132], have recently shown that the viscoelastic correspondence ...

Abstract: Structural instability, once a catastrophic phenomenon to be avoided in engineering applications, is being harnessed to improve functionality of structures and materials, and has been a catalyst of substantial research in ...

Abstract: We analyze the folding kinematics of a recently proposed origami-based tessellated structure called the Morph pattern, using thin, rigid panel assumptions. We discuss the geometry of the Morph unit cell that can exist in ...