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Abstract | ||
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Deployable structures are physical mechanisms that can easily transition between two or more geometric configurations; such structures enable industrial, scientific, and consumer applications at a wide variety of scales. This paper develops novel deployable structures that can approximate a large class of doubly-curved surfaces and are easily actuated from a flat initial state via inflation or gravitational loading. The structures are based on two-dimensional rigid mechanical linkages that implicitly encode the curvature of the target shape via a user-programmable pattern that permits locally isotropic scaling under load. We explicitly characterize the shapes that can be realized by such structures---in particular, we show that they can approximate target surfaces of positive mean curvature and bounded scale distortion relative to a given reference domain. Based on this observation, we develop efficient computational design algorithms for approximating a given input geometry. The resulting designs can be rapidly manufactured via digital fabrication technologies such as laser cutting, CNC milling, or 3D printing. We validate our approach through a series of physical prototypes and present several application case studies, ranging from surgical implants to large-scale deployable architecture.
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Year | DOI | Venue |
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2018 | 10.1145/3197517.3201373 | ACM Trans. Graph. |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
auxetic materials, computational fabrication, conformal geometry, digital fabrication, smart materials | Software deployment,Computer graphics (images),Computer science,Conformal geometry,Smart material,Auxetics,Gravitation,Inflation | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
37 | 4 | 0730-0301 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
3 | 0.39 | 24 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Mina Konakovic-Lukovic | 1 | 3 | 0.39 |
| Julian Panetta | 2 | 98 | 6.83 |
| Keenan Crane | 3 | 586 | 29.28 |
| Mark Pauly | 4 | 4970 | 201.49 |