Fig. 5. Out-of-plane compression response of cellular origami-inspired metamaterials.
Fabricated samples and measured properties of and unit in dissimilar lock modes; a Top view illustration of sample showing its primitive unit cell, and tessellation base vectors and tessellation levels. Engineering stress-strain curves measured for b in two lock configurations and , and for c in two lock configurations and . In b and c the shaded domain describes the dispersion of the results obtained from testing three samples. d Normalized compressive Young’s modulus (triangle symbols) and normalized yield strength (circle symbols) of vs. relative density. Error bars represent the standard deviation of our measurements. The subset in d schematically illustrates how the compressive Young’s modulus E* and yield strength σ* were measured. Cyclic (compressive loading-unloading) response of e (after ten cycles) and f (after four cycles) in their most compact lock modes and , respectively, showing the cyclic response stabilizes nearly after four cycles. In these experiments, the unloading is performed at 75% of the compressive strength of the initial cycle of each sample.