{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/strain-compatibility-and-gradient-elasticity","title":"Strain compatibility and gradient elasticity in morphing origami metamaterials","arxiv_id":"2207.08752","date":"2022-07-18","proceeding":null,"authors":["Hussein Nassar","Arthur Lebée","Emily Werner"],"abstract":"The principles of origami design have proven useful in a number of technological applications. Origami tessellations in particular constitute a class of morphing metamaterials with unusual geometric and elastic properties. Although inextensible in principle, fine creases allow origami metamaterials to effectively deform non-isometrically. Determining the strains that are compatible with coarse-grained origami kinematics as well as the corresponding elasticity functionals is paramount to understanding and controlling the morphing paths of origami metamaterials. Here, within a unified theory, we solve this problem for a wide array of well-known origami tessellations including the Miura-ori as well as its more formidable oblique, non-developable and non-flat-foldable variants. We find that these patterns exhibit two universal properties. On one hand, they all admit equal but opposite in-plane and out-of-plane Poisson's ratios. On the other hand, their bending energy detaches from their in-plane strain and depends instead on the strain gradient. The results are illustrated over a case study of the self-equilibrium geometry of origami pillars.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.08752v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.08752v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"strain-compatibility-and-gradient-elasticity","repo_url":"https://github.com/nassarh/pyramids","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}