The ancient arts of paper folding and cutting, known as origami and kirigami, continue to inspire the development of adaptive structures and architecture metamaterials. Utilizing the folding-induced deformations and strong geometric nonlinearities, researchers have achieved extraordinary mechanical properties, including but not limited to auxetic effects, high reconfigurability, programmable stiffness, impact absorption, and bistability / multistability. The study of origami/kirigami structures and metamaterials has gained significant attention in recent years, providing new problems and objects to mechanics and dynamics research while intersecting with other disciplines such as smart/soft materials and robotics. As research continues to advance, exciting new studies will emerge to uncover the underlying mechanisms of origami/kirigami mechanics and dynamics, promoting the application of multifunctional origami/kirigami structures and metamaterials across a range of fields.

Guest editors:

Prof. Hongbin Fang, PhD
Institute of AI and Robotics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
(origami mechanics and dynamics, origami-based mechanical metamaterials, bio-inspired robots, locomotion systems, data-driven modeling, nonlinear dynamics and control);

Prof. Yao Chen, PhD 
School of Civil Engineering, Southeast University, China
(origami structures and metamaterials, symmetry analysis using group/graph theory, and computational methods for engineering structures.)

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The submission is open from now to 30-November-2023;
The deadline for acceptance is 31-January-2024.  

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Keywords:

origami, kirigami, metamaterial, folding kinematics, folding mechanics, folding dynamics, reconfiguration, auxetic effect, bistability and multistability

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