Structural, Deployable Folds - Design and Simulation of Biological Inspired Folded Structures

摘要

This paper presents a concept of folding as a form- generator for a structural system that allows the ability to deploy large spanning structures.The presented approach studies the embedded kinetic possibilities of folded structures and focuses on a parametric modeling process that allows structural performance evaluation of different types of the same origami family in order to optimize the geometry for a given scenario.The workflow between scripting based form generation - within Rhinoceros and Excel - and LS-DYNA is presented in detail. Additionally, within the context of an architectural project we discuss the question of scalability from a thin microstructure to a thickened roof structure.