On origami-like quasi-mechanisms with an antiprismatic skeleton

TL;DR

This paper explores origami-inspired quasi-mechanisms with antiprismatic skeletons, analyzing their snapping and shaky behaviors, and introduces indices to evaluate their flexibility and stability.

Contribution

It generalizes existing polyhedral structures to develop a family of origami-like sandglasses with new quasi-mechanisms and introduces indices to quantify their snappability and shakeability.

Findings

Identified 1-parametric sets of shaky and snap-extreme quasi-mechanisms.

Developed the snappability and shakeability indices for these mechanisms.

Demonstrated the potential for flexible origami-like structures with antiprismatic skeletons.

Abstract

We study snapping and shaky polyhedra which consist of antiprismatic skeletons covered by polyhedral belts composed of triangular faces only. In detail, we generalize Wunderlich's trisymmetric sandglass polyhedron in analogy to the generalizsation of the Jessen orthogonal icosahedron to Milka's extreme birosette structures, with the additional feature that the belt is developable into the plane as the Kresling pattern. Within the resulting 2-dimensional family of origami-like sandglasses we study the 1-parametric sets of quasi-mechanisms which are either shaky or have an extremal snap, i.e. one realization is on the boundary of self-intersection. Moreover, we evaluate the capability of these snapping/shaky quasi-mechanisms to flex on base of the snappability index and the novel shakeability index, respectively.