| 摘要 |
The present invention supplies practical procedures, functions or techniques for folding tessellations. Several tessellation crease pattern techniques, and the three-dimensional folded configuration are given. Additionally several new forming processes, including mathematical methods for describing the material flow are disclosed doubly-periodic folding of materials that name the doubly-periodic folded (DPF) surface, including vertices, edges, and facets, at any stage of the folding. This information is necessary for designing tooling and forming equipment, for analyzing strength and deflections of the DPFs under a variety of conditions, for modeling the physical properties of DPF laminations and composite structures, for understanding the acoustic or other wave absorption/diffusion/reflection characteristics, and for analyzing and optimizing the structure of DPFs in any other physical situation. Fundamental methods and procedures for designing and generating DPF materials include ways for defining the tessellation crease patterns, the folding process, and the three-dimensional folded configuration. The ways are mathematically sound in that they can be extended to a theorem/proof format. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method for providing a folded sheet structure, the method comprising: (a) obtaining row information; (b) extracting information corresponding to row of edges in a tessellation (RET) data, row cross-section (RCS) data, or combinations thereof from the row information; (c) obtaining column information; (d) extracting information corresponding to column of edges in a tessellation (CET) data, column cross-section (CCS) data, column strip map (CSM) data, or combinations thereof from the column information; (e) combining the extracted row and the extracted column information to generate corresponding surface information having a plurality of interior vertices; and (f) utilizing the surface information to generate or image a folded sheet structure in accordance with the surface information.
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