Geometric design and mechanical behavior of a deployable cylinder with Miura origami

The folding and deployment of a cylinder with Miura origami patterns are studied in this paper. First, the geometric formulation of the design problem is discussed. Then the loading case of the axial strains and corresponding external nodal loads applied on the vertices of the top polygon during the motion is investigated analytically. The influence of the angle between the diagonal and horizontal fold lines α and β and the number of Miura origami elements n on the dynamic behavior of the basic segment is also discussed. Then the dynamic behavior is analyzed using numerical simulations. Finally, the deployment process of a cylinder with multi-stories is discussed. The numerical results agree well with the analytical predictions. The results show that the range of motion, i.e. the maximal displacement of top nodes, will also increase with the increase of angles α and β. This cylinder, with a smaller n, may have a bistable behavior. When n is larger, the influence of n on the axial strains and external nodal loads is slight. The numerical results agree well with the analytical predictions. Moreover, the deployment of the cylinder with multi-stories is non-uniform, which deploys from the upper story to the lower story.

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