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On Creases and Curved Links: Design Approaches for Predicting and Customizing Behaviors in Origami-Based and Developable Mechanisms

Jared Butler

2020

M.S Thesis

THESES + DISSERTATIONS

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On Creases and Curved Links: Design Approaches for Predicting and Customizing Behaviors in Origami-Based and Developable Mechanisms

Designing Developable Mechanisms on Conical and Cylindrical Developable Surfaces

Enabling Compact Devices Through Origami and Developable Mechanisms

Techniques for Using Internal Strain-Energy Storage and Release in Origami-Based Mechanical Systems

Joint Analysis of and Applications for Devices with Expanding Motions

Methods for Creating Rigid Foldability in Origami-Inspired Deployable Mechanisms

Augmented Design Capabilities for Origami Tessellations

Art to Engineering: Curved Folding and Developable Surfaces in Mechanism and Deployable Structure Design

A Definition and Demonstration of Developable Mechanisms

Using Collapsible Systems to Mitigate Buckling in Thin Flexible Instruments in Robotic Surgery

Developing New Classes of Thick-Origami-Based Mechanisms: Conceal-and-Reveal Motion and Folding Printed Circuit Boards

Considering Manufacturing in the Design of Thick-Panel Origami Mechanisms

Developing Hybrid Thickness-Accommodation Techniques for New Origami-Inspired Engineered Systems

Highly Compressible Origami Bellows for Harsh Environments

Selecting Surrogate Folds for Use in Origami-Based Mechanisms and Products

Design and Analysis of Two Compliant Mechanism Designs for Use in Minimally Invasive Surgical Instruments

Stiffness Reduction Strategies for Additively Manufactured Compliant Mechanisms

Deployable and Foldable Arrays of Spatial Mechanisms

Compliant Mechanisms for Deployable Space Systems

Modeling and Testing of Bistable Waterbomb Base Configurations

Elastic Energy Absorption via Compliant Corrugations

Origami-Based Design for Engineering Applications

Fully Compliant Mechanisms for Bearing Subtraction in Robotics and Space Applications

Investigation of Compliant Space Mechanisms with Applications to the Design of a Large-Displacement Monolithic Compliant Rotational Hinge

A Method for Exploring Optimization Formulation Space in Conceptual Design

The Application of Origami to the Design of Lamina Emergent Mechanisms (LEMs) with Extensions to Collapsible, Compliant and Flat Folding Mechanisms

Evaluation and Development of Actuators for Lamina Emergent Mechanisms with Emphasis on Flat Solenoids

Mechanical Properties and MEMS Applications of Carbon-Infiltrated Carbon Nanotube Forests

Devices and Methods for Electro-Physical Transport of DNA across Cell Membranes

Characterization of the Mechanical Response of the Lumbar Spine

Spinal Implant with Customized and Non-Linear Stiffness

Expanding Lamina Emergent Mechanism (LEM) Capabilities: Spherical LEMs, LEM Joints, and LEM Applications

Mathematical Model and Experimental Exploration of the Nanoinjector Lance Array

A Generalized Two-Dimensional Model to Reconstruct the Impact Phase in Automobile Collisions

A Design Framework that Employs a Classification Scheme and Library for Compliant Mechanism Design

Straightness of Growth For Carbon Nanotube Microelectromechanical Systems

Design and Analysis of a Compliant Mechanism Spinal Implant

Modeling, Design and Testing of Contact-Aided Compliant Mechanisms in Spinal Arthroplasty

Development of Criteria for Lamina Emergent Mechanism Flexures with Specific Application to Metals

Design Principles and Preliminary Actuation Approaches For Novel Multiple-Layer Lamina Emergent

Piezoresistive Models for Polysilicon with Bending or Torsional Loads

Off-axis Stiffness and Piezoresistive Sensing in Large-Displacement Linear-Motion Microelectromechanical Systems

Principles, Functions and Concepts for Compliant Mechanically Reactive Armor Elements

Multi-physics Modeling and Calibration for Self-sensing of Thermomechanical In-plane Microactuators

Design and Testing of a Pumpless Microelectro-Mechanical System Nanoinjector

Achieving Complex Motion with Fundamental Components for Lamina Emergent Mechanisms

Fundamental Components for Lamina Emergent Mechanisms

Characterizing the Three-dimensional Behavior of Bistable Micromechanisms

Design and Fabrication of Out-of-Plane Silicon Microneedles with Integrated Hydrophobic Microchannels

Integrated Piezoresistive Sensing for Feedback Control of Compliant MEMS

Elliptical Rolling Link Toggle Mechanisms for Passive Force Closures with Self-Adjustment

Large-Displacement Linear-Motion Compliant Mechanisms

Development of Deployable Wings for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Compliant Mechanisms

Multi-Stable Compliant Rolling-Contact Elements

The Piezoresistive Effect In Microflexures

Large 3-D Deflection and Force Analysis of Lateral Torsional Buckled Beams

Development of a Strain Energy Storage Mechanism Using Tension Elements to Enhance Golf Club Performance

Compliant Ortho-Planar Spring Behavior Under Complex Loads

Ortho-Planar Mechanisms for Microelectromechanical Systems

Dual-stage Thermally Actuated Surface-micromachined Nanopositioners

Simulation-based Design Under Uncertainty for Compliant Microelectromechanical Systems

Compliant Mechanisms to Perform Bearing and Spring Function in High Precision Applications

Fully Compliant Tensural Bistable Mechanisms (FTBM) with On-chip Thermal Actuation

High-Torque Capacity Compliant Centrifugal Clutches

Design and Analysis of End-Effector Systems for Scribing on Silicon

Compliant, In-plane Ratchet and Pawl Micromechanisms for Safety Applications

The Pseudo-Rigid-Body Model for Dynamic Predictions of Macro and Micro Compliant Mechanisms

Design of Compliant Mechanisms for Grasping with Application to Mechanical Disc Brakes

Analysis and Design of Surface Micromachined Micromanipulators for Out-of-plane Micropositioning

Compliant Mechanisms Suspensions

Compliant Mechanisms Subjected to Compressive Loadings

An Approach to Concept Development for Compliant Mechanisms Possessing High Coefficients of Restitution

Metamorphic Process for Compliant Ortho-planar Mechanism Design

On-Chip Actuation of Compliant Bistable Micro-Mechanisms

Predicting the Effects of Dimensional and Material Property Variations in Micro Compliant Mechanisms

Development and Design of Constant Force Mechanisms

A Self-Retracting Fully-Compliant Bistable Micromechanism

Electrothermomechanical Modeling of a Surface-micromachined Linear Displacement Microactuator