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An origami-inspired infill pattern for additive manufacturing to reinforce the energy absorption performance

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Origami techniques derived from antique paper folding arts have been applied to solve engineering problems such as weight/space-saving structures and their rapid deployment for foldability. Recently, origami techniques’ potential in mechanical reinforcement for structural designs has also been discussed. For example, the mechanical performance of origami tubular structures can be significantly improved compared with the circular and hexagonal tubes under lateral loading. In this paper, an origami-inspired tubular structure was applied as the infill pattern for additive manufacturing, and energy absorption performance under dynamic and static loadings was investigated. Fused filament fabrication was selected as the testbed for the origami-inspired infill pattern investigation. The samples with the origami infill pattern presented higher dynamic and quasi-static energy absorption performance than samples with grid or honeycomb infill patterns. The proposed structural reinforcement method can be expanded to crash-worthy structures, thin-wall structures, functional structures, and the design of lightweight, high-strength parts.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Aaron Jordan and Mattew Janowicz for providing the instruments training and lab support for this study.

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This paper is based on the work supported by the Iowa Energy Center (IEC) Award Number 20-IEC-015 and the Exploratory Research Project grant from the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering (IMSE_ERP) at Iowa State University.

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  1. Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA

    Weijun Shen, Xuepeng Jiang & Hantang Qin

  2. College of Engineering, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, 45469, USA

    Gül E. Okudan-Kremer

  3. Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA

    Zhan Zhang, Gül E. Okudan-Kremer & Hantang Qin

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Weijun Shen: conceptualisation; methodology; validation; formal analysis; investigation; data curation; writing—original draft preparation; writing–review and editing. Xuepeng Jiang: methodology, validation, formal analysis, investigation, data curation, writing—original draft preparation. Zhan Zhang: conceptualisation; methodology investigation; writing—review and editing; project administration; funding acquisition. Gül E. Okudan-Kremer: conceptualisation; methodology; formal analysis; investigation; writing—review and editing; supervision; project administration; funding acquisition. Hantang Qin: generation of project ideas; conceptualisation; methodology; validation; investigation; writing—review and editing; project administration; funding acquisition.

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Shen, W., Jiang, X., Zhang, Z. et al. An origami-inspired infill pattern for additive manufacturing to reinforce the energy absorption performance. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 122, 4267–4274 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-022-09883-w

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