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Packing and deploying Soft Origami to and from cylindrical volumes with application to automotive airbags
Packing soft-sheet materials of approximately zero bending stiffness using Soft Origami (origami patterns applied to soft-sheet materials) into cylindrical volumes and their deployment via mechanisms or internal pressure (inflation) is of interest in fields including automobile airbags, deployable h...
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The Royal Society
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5043326/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27703707 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160429 |
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author | Bruton, Jared T. Nelson, Todd G. Zimmerman, Trent K. Fernelius, Janette D. Magleby, Spencer P. Howell, Larry L. |
author_facet | Bruton, Jared T. Nelson, Todd G. Zimmerman, Trent K. Fernelius, Janette D. Magleby, Spencer P. Howell, Larry L. |
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description | Packing soft-sheet materials of approximately zero bending stiffness using Soft Origami (origami patterns applied to soft-sheet materials) into cylindrical volumes and their deployment via mechanisms or internal pressure (inflation) is of interest in fields including automobile airbags, deployable heart stents, inflatable space habitats, and dirigible and parachute packing. This paper explores twofold patterns, the ‘flasher’ and the ‘inverted-cone fold’, for packing soft-sheet materials into cylindrical volumes. Two initial packing methods and mechanisms are examined for each of the flasher and inverted-cone fold patterns. An application to driver’s side automobile airbags is performed, and deployment tests are completed to compare the influence of packing method and origami pattern on deployment performance. Following deployment tests, two additional packing methods for the inverted-cone fold pattern are explored and applied to automobile airbags. It is shown that modifying the packing method (using different methods to impose the same base pattern on the soft-sheet material) can lead to different deployment performance. In total, two origami patterns and six packing methods are examined, and the benefits of using Soft Origami patterns and packing methods are discussed. Soft Origami is presented as a viable method for efficiently packing soft-sheet materials into cylindrical volumes. |
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spelling | pubmed-50433262016-10-04 Packing and deploying Soft Origami to and from cylindrical volumes with application to automotive airbags Bruton, Jared T. Nelson, Todd G. Zimmerman, Trent K. Fernelius, Janette D. Magleby, Spencer P. Howell, Larry L. R Soc Open Sci Engineering Packing soft-sheet materials of approximately zero bending stiffness using Soft Origami (origami patterns applied to soft-sheet materials) into cylindrical volumes and their deployment via mechanisms or internal pressure (inflation) is of interest in fields including automobile airbags, deployable heart stents, inflatable space habitats, and dirigible and parachute packing. This paper explores twofold patterns, the ‘flasher’ and the ‘inverted-cone fold’, for packing soft-sheet materials into cylindrical volumes. Two initial packing methods and mechanisms are examined for each of the flasher and inverted-cone fold patterns. An application to driver’s side automobile airbags is performed, and deployment tests are completed to compare the influence of packing method and origami pattern on deployment performance. Following deployment tests, two additional packing methods for the inverted-cone fold pattern are explored and applied to automobile airbags. It is shown that modifying the packing method (using different methods to impose the same base pattern on the soft-sheet material) can lead to different deployment performance. In total, two origami patterns and six packing methods are examined, and the benefits of using Soft Origami patterns and packing methods are discussed. Soft Origami is presented as a viable method for efficiently packing soft-sheet materials into cylindrical volumes. The Royal Society 2016-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5043326/ /pubmed/27703707 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160429 Text en © 2016 The Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Engineering Bruton, Jared T. Nelson, Todd G. Zimmerman, Trent K. Fernelius, Janette D. Magleby, Spencer P. Howell, Larry L. Packing and deploying Soft Origami to and from cylindrical volumes with application to automotive airbags |
title | Packing and deploying Soft Origami to and from cylindrical volumes with application to automotive airbags |
title_full | Packing and deploying Soft Origami to and from cylindrical volumes with application to automotive airbags |
title_fullStr | Packing and deploying Soft Origami to and from cylindrical volumes with application to automotive airbags |
title_full_unstemmed | Packing and deploying Soft Origami to and from cylindrical volumes with application to automotive airbags |
title_short | Packing and deploying Soft Origami to and from cylindrical volumes with application to automotive airbags |
title_sort | packing and deploying soft origami to and from cylindrical volumes with application to automotive airbags |
topic | Engineering |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5043326/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27703707 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160429 |
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