报告题目: Origami and Kirigami Inspired Structures

报告人：由衷

时间：4月11日（星期四）14:00

地点：安中多功能厅

报告简介：

Origami is the pure form of paper folding whereas kirigami involves not only folding but cutting as well. In general, kirigami is much less restrictive geometrically. As a result, it greatly expands the application scope of origami. For example, pop-up books are made possible because of kirigami. Hence, for engineers, it is worth considering kirigami when origami does not offer solutions.

The theme of this talk is on origami and kirigami inspired novel deployable structures. I shall first present the conversion of a well-known single motion origami structure to a dual motion reconfigurable one using kirigami, which lead to a family of reconfigurable structures. And then, I shall discuss the role of kirigami in comparison with origami when the thickness of the sheet cannot be ignored. Examples where the use of kirigami leads to the most compact folding will be shown, which are simply impossible in origami. My talk will focus on the kinematic aspect of these structures, and all examples utilise rigorous mathematical modelling and analysis, and they are validated by physical models.

报告人简介：

 Dr Zhong You is currently a Professor of Engineering Science at the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow of Magdalen College. Zhong obtained his BS from Shanghai Jiaotong University, and MS from Dalian University of Technology, and Ph.D. from Cambridge University.

Zhong’s research is concerned with the design and realisation of novel deployable structures, a type of unconventional structures capable of large shape changes. He has published many ground-breaking research papers in prestigious journals including SCIENCE and PNAS. His work was selected for the Science Day Exhibition at Buckingham Palace in 2007, organised by the Royal Society. Zhong is one of the pioneers of research on origami, SCIENCE introduced Zhong’s research work in their “profile” section. In addition, he developed a flow diversion stent to treat cerebral aneurysms. Oxford Endovascular, a university spin-off company, was founded to commercialise this technology. Zhong also designed the best selling foldable folding bed for children known as the stardust travel cot.