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most citedLarge-Scale Modular and Uniformly Thick Origami-Inspired Adaptable and Load-Carrying Structures

75 citations · 120 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.RO2026

Active 3D weaves for load-bearing and damage-resilient locomotion

Guowei Wayne Tu, Evgueni T. Filipov

The craft of weaving, where different materials are interlaced, has tremendous potential for creating active and functional systems for use in soft robots, prosthetics, wearables,…

cond-mat.other2026

Rapid Kirigami Simulation using the Bar & Hinge Approach

Raj Pradip Khawale, Elaheh Mehdizadeh, John Brigham +1

Kirigami, the art of cutting sheets, offers unique characteristics such as shape morphing, stretchability, and adaptability, with applications in deployable and reconfigurable stru…

cs.RO2026

A Reduced Order Model for Emergent Mechanics in Woven Systems

Anvay A. Pradhan, Evgueni T. Filipov, Talia Y. Moore

Woven structures exhibit rich mechanical behaviors including anisotropic stiffness, shear-induced locking, and crimp interchange that emerge purely from the geometric arrangement o…

physics.optics2026

Self-locking non-volatile coding metasurfaces via origami-based mechanical bits

Ding Zhang, Peng Tang, Liqiao Jing +7

Digital coding metasurfaces have revolutionized electromagnetic (EM) manipulation, yet typical tunable approaches based on active components suffer from the "volatility" bottleneck…

physics.app-ph2025

Stiffness and Buckling Behavior of Woven Columns

Jaimie Krankel, Guowei Wayne Tu, Evgueni T. Filipov

Woven shell structures are beneficial for applications requiring lightweight, damage resilience, and design tunability, such as in wearable devices, soft robotics, and aerospace sy…

cond-mat.soft2025

Engineering snags for spatial curvature in weaves: Fabrication, mechanics, and inverse design

Guowei Wayne Tu, Evgueni T. Filipov

Weaving as an old craft has extensive applications in modern science and technology such as smart textiles and intelligent soft robots. However, weaving irregular curved surfaces h…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 6 cited

Origami of Multi-Layered Spaced Sheets

Guowei Wayne Tu, Evgueni T. Filipov

Two-dimensional (2D) origami tessellations such as the Miura-ori are often generalized to build three-dimensional (3D) architected materials with sandwich or cellular structures. H…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 3 cited

Corner Topology Makes Woven Baskets into Stiff, yet Resilient Metamaterials

Guowei Wayne Tu, Evgueni T. Filipov

Basket weaving is a traditional craft used to create practical three-dimensional (3D) structures. While the geometry and aesthetics of baskets have received considerable attention,…

physics.app-ph2023★ 75 cited

Large-Scale Modular and Uniformly Thick Origami-Inspired Adaptable and Load-Carrying Structures

Yi Zhu, Evgueni T. Filipov

Existing Civil Engineering structures have limited capability to adapt their configurations for new functions, non-stationary environments, or future reuse. Although origami princi…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 17 cited

Harnessing Interpretable Machine Learning for Holistic Inverse Design of Origami

Yi Zhu, Evgueni T. Filipov

This work harnesses interpretable machine learning methods to address the challenging inverse design problem of origami-inspired systems. We show that a decision tree-random forest…

cs.RO2021★ 19 cited

Rapid Multi-Physics Simulation for Electro-Thermal Origami Systems

Yi Zhu, Evgueni T. Filipov

Electro-thermally actuated origami provides a novel method for creating 3-D systems with advanced morphing and functional capabilities. However, it is currently difficult to simula…