Abstract Although broadly admired for its aesthetic qualities, the art of origami is now being recognized also as a framework for mechanical metamaterial design. Working with the Miura-ori tessellation, we find that each unit cell of this crease pattern is mechanically bistable, and by switching between states, the compressive modulus of the overall structure can […]
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Vincent Demery accepts offer from ESPCI
Congratulations to Vincent Demery, who has accepted an offer from ESPCI. He will be starting in December 2014.
New paper: Finding optimal growth patterns for designer shapes
Nonuniform growth and topological defects in the shaping of elastic sheets with Nakul P. Bende and Ryan C. Hayward Abstract: We demonstrate that shapes with zero Gaussian curvature, except at singularities, produced by the growth-induced buckling of a thin elastic sheet are the same as those produced by the Volterra construction of topological defects in […]