Computational/Geometrical Miura-Ori Research Ideas

Some potential computational/geometrical Miura-Ori related research prompts:

1. Improve Miura-Ori computational discretization scheme
   • Currently only applicable to origami sheets with triangular or quadrilateral panels
   • Used to improve accuracy and to enable analysis of origami sheets with arbitrary origami panels
2. Re-design the constitutive relationship of bars and rotational springs to better reflect physical behaviors of specific origami structures
   • Maybe consider the global contact of sheets
3. Develop experimental models and perform compression tests to verify the computational parametric analysis results of Miura-Ori metamaterial geometry under quasistatic compressive loads
4. Computationally analyze the practical engineering applications of MMG (Miura-ori Metamaterial Geometry) cellular solids for energy absorption purposes
   • Adopting origami megastructures and metamaterials in dynamic applications
5. Extend continuum geometric approaches for Miura-Ori to curvygami, kirigami, etc.
6. Analyze elastic energy of Miura-ori panels
7. Generate Miura-Ori substrates from one piece of magneto-active elastomers (MAE) material
   • Photo-curing and magnetically poling in prescribed directions for panels individually
     • Allow for thinner substrates, better actuation
8. Analyze how altering the geometry of Miura-Ori effects magneto-active effect elastomers in activating the the pattern
   • Miura-Ori patterns with vertical creases at a larger angle from the vertical may allow for easier actuation
9. Programming origami bi-stability
   • Tailoring the origami bistable dynamics