{"id":124466,"date":"2021-06-30T16:22:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T23:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/kiriform-tech-allows-flat-objects-to-be-twisted-into-3d-shapes"},"modified":"2021-06-30T16:22:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T23:22:56","slug":"kiriform-tech-allows-flat-objects-to-be-twisted-into-3d-shapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/kiriform-tech-allows-flat-objects-to-be-twisted-into-3d-shapes","title":{"rendered":"Kiriform tech allows flat objects to be twisted into 3D shapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/kiriform-tech-allows-flat-objects-to-be-twisted-into-3d-shapes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ordinarily, if you\u2019re building something, you don\u2019t want the materials to buckle under pressure. In a new Harvard University-designed system, however, that buckling action allows flat-packed objects to be twisted into useful three-dimensional forms.<\/p>\n<p>Most existing \u201cbuckling-induced deployable structures\u201d consist of linked straight pieces that are popped into shape via straight linear motion, which often requires a fair bit of force to be applied by the user. Folding chairs are one frequently frustrating example.<\/p>\n<p>Seeking an easier alternative, Harvard researchers instead set about building items made up of linked <i>curved<\/i> pieces. Generally speaking, <i>curved<\/i> objects (such as beams) are less mechanically stable than their straight counterparts. In most scenarios, this is an undesirable quality. In the case of pop-up devices, though, it means that they\u2019re easier to buckle into the desired form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ordinarily, if you\u2019re building something, you don\u2019t want the materials to buckle under pressure. In a new Harvard University-designed system, however, that buckling action allows flat-packed objects to be twisted into useful three-dimensional forms. Most existing \u201cbuckling-induced deployable structures\u201d consist of linked straight pieces that are popped into shape via straight linear motion, which often [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}