title: Folding behaviour of Tachi-Miura polyhedron bellows.
abstract: In this paper, we examine the folding behaviour of Tachi-Miura polyhedron (TMP) bellows made of paper, which is known as a rigid-foldable structure, and construct a theoretical model to predict the mechanical energy associated with the compression of TMP bellows, which is compared with the experimentally measured energy, resulting in the gap between the mechanical work by the compression force and the bending energy distributed along all the crease lines. The extended Hamilton's principle is applied to explain the gap which is considered to be energy dissipation in the mechanical behaviour of TMP bellows.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering , University of Washington , PO Box 352600, Seattle, Washington 98195-2600, USA.
authors.forename: Hiromi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yasuda
authors.forename: Thu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yein
authors.forename: Tomohiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tachi
authors.forename: Koryo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Miura
authors.forename: Minoru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Taya
keywords: Miura-ori; Tachi–Miura polyhedron; energy dissipation; extended Hamilton's principle; origami