Abstract Origami, the art of folding paper, has inspired the development of rigid foldable structures for various applications in aerospace, biomedical, and packaging applications. In order to drive and control origami structure with thick panels, a novel rigid Miura-Ori structure with bistable anti-symmetric carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) shells was proposed in this paper. Based on the membrane hinge technique, a theoretical model of the Miura-Ori structure with thick panels combined with bistable CFRP shells was established based on the principle of minimum potential energy. Bistable CFRP shells were used as the connection and driving parts of the whole structure instead of thin-walled materials or hinged structures. Finite element simulations were conducted to explore the deformations and trigger forces. The coincident boundary conditions were provided, which were the same as those used in the compression tests using the universal tensile testing machine. Experiments were conducted to validate the simulation results. The results showed that there is good agreement between the simulation and experimental results, indicating that the bistability of the origami structure is achieved under the control of the CFRP cylindrical shells.

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由双稳态碳纤维增强聚合物圆柱壳驱动的刚性厚 Miura-Ori 结构

摘要折纸是一种折叠纸艺术，它启发了刚性可折叠结构的发展，用于航空航天、生物医学和包装应用的各种应用。为了驱动和控制厚板折纸结构，本文提出了一种具有双稳态反对称碳纤维增强聚合物（CFRP）壳的新型刚性Miura-Ori结构。基于膜铰链技术，基于势能最小原理，建立了厚板结合双稳态CFRP壳的Miura-Ori结构理论模型。双稳态CFRP壳代替薄壁材料或铰链结构作为整个结构的连接和驱动部件。进行了有限元模拟以探索变形和触发力。提供了重合边界条件，这些条件与使用万能拉伸试验机进行的压缩试验中使用的相同。进行了实验以验证模拟结果。结果表明，模拟结果与实验结果吻合较好，表明折纸结构的双稳态是在CFRP圆柱壳的控制下实现的。