针对工程折展结构的厚度不能忽略、折叠过程中存在严重的物理干涉等问题,摆脱折纸传统球面机构模型的束缚,创造性地用空间机构代替球面机构,建立了基于过约束空间机构的单个折纸顶点厚板运动学模型。针对多顶点折纸,分析多顶点厚板折纸对应机构网格的构建拓扑与运动协调条件,精确描述了厚板折纸的折叠过程,揭示了厚板折纸与零厚度折纸的运动等效机理,建立了由零厚度折纸直接构建等效厚板折纸的设计方法,成功解决了厚板折纸国际难题。 “厚板折纸(Origami of Thick Panels)”的研究成果突破了折纸科学从理论到应用的主要瓶颈,为折纸结构的工程应用铺平了道路。该成果于2015年发表在顶级期刊Science上,创国际机构学领域首例。
Xiao Zhang, Yan Chen*. The diamond thick-panel origami and the corresponding mobile assemblies of plane-symmetric Bricard linkages. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2018, 130, 585-604. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2018.09.005)
Jingyi Yang, Xiao Zhang, Yan Chen, Zhong You, Folding arrays of uniform-thickness panels to compact bundles with a single degree of freedom. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2022, 478: 20220043. ( http://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2022.0043)
Chenjie Zhao#, Ming Li#, Xin Zhou, Tianming Liu, Jian Xing, Yan Chen, Xiao Zhang*. Deployable structure based on double-layer miura-ori pattern. Mechanics Research Communications, 2023, 131, 104152. ( https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechrescom.2023.104152)
Weiqi Liu, Yuxing Song, Yan Chen*, Xiao Zhang*. Reconfigurable thick-panel structures based on a stacked origami tube. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 2024, 16(12): 121005. ( https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4064836)
Yuanqing Gu, Yan Chen*. Origami cubes with one-DOF rigid and flat foldability. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2020, 207, 250-261. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2020.09.008)