Applications of Folding Flat Sheets of Materials into 3-D ...

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Applications of Folding Flat Sheets of Materials into 3-D Intricate Engineering Designs E. A. Elsayed and Basily B. Basily Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Rutgers University 96 Frelinghuysen Road Piscataway, NJ 08854-8018 Abstract Folding of flat sheets of material into intricate three-dimensional structures provides a new technology for production of cores and sandwich structures of high strength/weight and/or strength/volume ratios. Geometric patterns are generated by transforming flat sheets of materials (traditional or composite) by imposing a permanent fold at specific edges of tessellated sheets.

• impact energy
• continuous folding
• core structure
• core structures
• simulation of composite sandwich structures for civil transportation
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• patterns
• material
• load
• 3 materials
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