Review of Inflatable Booms for Deployable Space Structures: Packing and Rigidization

Schenk, Mark; Viquerat, Andrew; Seffen, Keith A.; Guest, Simon D.

doi:10.2514/1.a32598

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“…Origami crash boxes have been shown to have up to a 57% increase in energy absorption over an equivalent square thin-walled tube [24][25]. Tubular origami for deployable membrane space structures have been investigated and shown to have favourable packaging efficiency and deployment mechanisms [26][27]. Foundational origami science literature proposed the pseudo-cylindrical concave polyhedral (PCCP) shell, which was developed following observations that the post-buckling shape of thin cylindrical shell under axial compression, gave a polyhedral surface that corresponded to a Yoshimura origami pattern [28].…”

Section: Origami-inspired Tubular and Elastomeric Structuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experimental and numerical investigation of bulging behaviour of hyperelastic textured tubes

Gattas

Wang

et al. 2016

International Journal of Mechanical Sciences

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The inflation and propagation of a localized instability in elastic tubes shares the same mathematical features with a range of other localization problems, including buckling propagation in long metal tubes under external pressure. Recent research into origami-inspired tubular geometries has suggested that geometric texturing is able to significantly improve metal pipe resistance to propagation buckling failures, with an increase in critical and propagation pressures. This paper aims to investigate whether texturing generates a similar improvement in hyperelastic tubes under axial loading and internal pressure, with elastomer origami structures of recent interest for use as soft actuators and robots. A new fabrication method with 3D printed moulds in a dip process was first developed to enable fabrication of textured tube samples. An experimental study was then conducted on inflated smooth and textured latex tubes, with instability formation observed at a 1ms resolution. Comparative numerical models with a Mooney-Rivlin material were able to provide a good prediction of experimentally-observed behaviours up to and slightly past the critical pressure and bulge formation. A parametric numerical study is then conducted to show that the number of divisions in the axial direction and circumferential direction have no and modest effects on critical pressure, respectively. The experimental and numerical investigations both showed that the critical pressure of the textured tube was increased compared to the smooth tube, however the degree of increase was a modest 8% and so unlikely to be of significant practical benefit. This work can provide reference and guidelines for future investigations of tubular inflatable origami structures.

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Section: Origami-inspired Tubular and Elastomeric Structuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experimental and numerical investigation of bulging behaviour of hyperelastic textured tubes

Gattas

Wang

et al. 2016

International Journal of Mechanical Sciences

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“…Origami folded cylinders have found applications in space technology for deployable sails and booms [11,12], medical devices such as stents [13], and even nuclear physics [14]. Although these fields are very sensitive to reliability and cost concerns, pattern development has been conducted in a largely ad-hoc manner [15] due to the absence of a general predictive framework for their performance.…”

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Geometry and design of origami bellows with tunable response

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Origami folded cylinders (origami bellows) have found increasingly sophisticated applications in space flight and medicine. In spite of this interest, a general understanding of the mechanics of an origami folded cylinder has been elusive. With a newly developed set of geometrical tools, we have found an analytic solution for all possible cylindrical rigid-face states of both Miura-ori and triangular tessellations. Although an idealized bellows in both of these families may have two allowed rigid-face configurations over a well-defined region, the corresponding physical device, limited by nonzero material thickness and forced to balance hinge and plate-bending energy, often cannot stably maintain a stowed configuration. We have identified the parameters that control this emergent bistability, and have demonstrated the ability to design and fabricate bellows with tunable deployability.

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“…The continuous perimeter of the cross-sections could enable the tubes to be used in fluid flow applications. More traditional applications would involve primarily using these tubular origami as deployable pipe-like [4,15,16] or bellow systems [17,18]. These could have wide and varied applications including deployable pipes for construction, biomedical devices or inflatable space structure components.…”

Section: Appendix a Foldability Of Origami Tubesmentioning

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“…Despite the higher complexity of manufacturing, origami tubes greatly extend the functionality of engineered thin sheet structures. For example, they can be used as deployable stents in biomedicine [14], as inflatable structural booms for space structures [15,16], or as actuators and bellows [4,17,18]. Origami tubes have a self-constraining geometry that makes them suitable for energy absorption devices [19][20][21][22].…”

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Origami tubes with reconfigurable polygonal cross-sections

2016

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Thin sheets can be assembled into origami tubes to create a variety of deployable, reconfigurable and mechanistically unique three-dimensional structures. We introduce and explore origami tubes with polygonal, translational symmetric cross-sections that can reconfigure into numerous geometries. The tubular structures satisfy the mathematical definitions for flat and rigid foldability, meaning that they can fully unfold from a flattened state with deformations occurring only at the fold lines. The tubes do not need to be straight and can be constructed to follow a nonlinear curved line when deployed. The cross-section and kinematics of the tubular structures can be reprogrammed by changing the direction of folding at some folds. We discuss the variety of tubular structures that can be conceived and we show limitations that govern the geometric design. We quantify the global stiffness of the origami tubes through eigenvalue and structural analyses and highlight the mechanical characteristics of these systems. The two-scale nature of this work indicates that, from a local viewpoint, the crosssections of the polygonal tubes are reconfigurable while, from a global viewpoint, deployable tubes of desired shapes are achieved. This class of tubes has potential applications ranging from pipes and microrobotics to deployable architecture in buildings.

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Review of Inflatable Booms for Deployable Space Structures: Packing and Rigidization

Cited by 234 publications

References 74 publications

Experimental and numerical investigation of bulging behaviour of hyperelastic textured tubes

Experimental and numerical investigation of bulging behaviour of hyperelastic textured tubes

Geometry and design of origami bellows with tunable response

Origami tubes with reconfigurable polygonal cross-sections

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