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Byu solar panel origami.
Origami is a source of inspiration for byu mechanical engineers who are working with the national science foundation nasa jpl and origami master robert lang.
Brian trease at nasa s jet propulsion laboratory has been thinking about how it could be used in spacecraft.
Highly compressible origami bellows.
Working with nasa s jet propulsion laboratory a team of mechanical engineering students and faculty have designed a solar array that can be tightly compacted for launch and then deployed.
Air force to research engineering applications of origami.
This is a unique crossover of art and culture and.
Origami has been a hot topic in technology recently.
Rigidly foldable origami twists.
For more information on the design of the solar panel see these publications.
Byu engineers have teamed up with a world renowned origami expert to solve one of space exploration s greatest and most ironic problems.
Amanda kae fronk ba 09.
Accommodating thickness in origami based deployable arrays journal of mechanical design 135 11 2013.
Lang robert j spencer magleby and larry howell.
156 panels cover zirbel s solar array to which solar cells are affixed.
How origami is inspiring scientific creativity.
Byu designed solar arrays inspired by origami.
Applying origami principles on rigid silicon solar panels a material considerably thicker than the paper used for the traditional japanese art the byu conceived solar array would unfold to.
Trease researchers from brigham young university and origami expert robert lang have created working prototypes of the origami solar panels.
2 million was awarded to byu s compliant mechanisms research group of which zirbel is a part by the national science foundation and the u s.
Applying origami principles on rigid silicon solar panels a material considerably thicker than the paper used for the traditional japanese art the byu conceived solar array would unfold to nearly 10 times its stored size.
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