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Engineers at the BYU Compliant Mechanisms Research Group created various foldable structures using origami engineering. These prototypes allow engineers to explore broad design spaces in the physical ...

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Aerospace engineering professor Manan Arya refers to it as the “suitcase problem,” a challenge not of clothing but of fitting vast, deployable structures into the confined volume of a rocket fairing.