Air bags

Jagger, Janine; Vernberg, Katherine; Jane, John A.

doi:10.1097/00006123-198705000-00028

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“…Very popular among children in the form of party balloons, inflatables have also been employed in science and engineering to enable the design of a variety of systems, including temporary shelters [1,2,3], airbags [4,5], soft robots [6,7,8,9,10,11] and shapemorphing structures [12,13,14,15]. To design shape changing inflatable structures, two main strategies have been pursued.…”

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Kirigami‐Inspired Inflatables with Programmable Shapes

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Kirigami, the Japanese art of paper cutting, has recently enabled the design of stretchable mechanical metamaterials that can be easily realized by embedding arrays of periodic cuts into an elastic sheet. Here, we exploit kirigami principles to design inflatables that can mimic target shapes upon pressurization. Our system comprises a kirigami sheet embedded into an unstructured elastomeric membrane. First, we show that the inflated shape can be controlled by tuning the geometric parameters of the kirigami pattern. Then, by applying a simple optimization algorithm, we identify the best parameters that enable the kirigami inflatables to transform into a family of target shapes at a given pressure. Furthermore, thanks to the tessellated nature of the kirigami, we show that we can selectively manipulate the parameters of the single units to allow the reproduction of features at different scales and ultimately enable a more accurate mimicking of the target.

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Ocular Injuries Related to Air Bag Inflation

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Jaeger²,

Gault³

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Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging

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* BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The effectiveness of air bags as a safety device in decreasing fatalities and reducing morbidity in frontal impact motor vehicle accidents has been well established. However, case reports have surfaced documenting ocular injuries related to air bag inflation. The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze ocular injuries sustained during air bag inflation. * PATIENTS AND METHODS: Hospital emergency room records were reviewed retrospectively for a period of 4 years for patients who had sustained ocular injuries in motor vehicle accidents. Those injuries associated with air bag inflation were analyzed as to the nature of the injury, type of vehicle, speed, and visual morbidity. * RESULTS: Fourteen cases of ocular injury related to air bag inflation were identified. Hyphema (nine cases) and cornea abrasion (eight cases) were the most common. Three cases, all patients who had been wearing glasses, sustained serious and permanent ocular damage. * CONCLUSION: While air bags are an unequivocal safety feature, ocular injuries do occur that are related to air bag inflation. Eyeglass wear may present an additional risk factor. [Ophthalmic Surg Lasers 1995;26:542-548.]

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Air bags

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Kirigami‐Inspired Inflatables with Programmable Shapes

Kirigami‐Inspired Inflatables with Programmable Shapes

Letters to the Editor

Ocular Injuries Related to Air Bag Inflation

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