Development of Innovative Light Weight Structure of Fiber Reinforced Plastic Origami Type and Research on its Base Technology

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K05769
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Design engineering/Machine functional elements/Tribology
• Research Institution: Saitama Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: ZHAO XILU 埼玉工業大学, 工学部, 教授 (30610307)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-10-21 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 軽量化構造 / 複合材料 / 設計方法 / 折紙工学 / 最適設計 / 力学特性解析

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In order to reduce the structural weight of railway cars and automobiles, we propose a new high performance lightweight structure and processing method by applying fiber reinforced plastic composite material to conventional truss core panel structure. By fully utilizing the stiffness reinforcement effect of the composite material and the origami structure, the mechanical properties of the structure and the plate thickness distribution of the manufactured structure are improved. The manufacturing difficult problem of Truss Core panel lightweight structure was a major challenge to the previously became to be resolved.

Free Research Field

機械工学