Publications by Francis Julian Panetta

Computational Homogenization for Inverse Design of Surface-based Inflatables

Mark Pauly, Francis Julian Panetta, Uday Kusupati, Yingying Ren, Florin Isvoranu, Seiichi Eduardo Suzuki Erazo

Surface-based inflatables are composed of two thin layers of nearly inextensible sheet material joined together along carefully selected fusing curves. During inflation, pressure forces separate the two sheets to maximize the enclosed volume. The fusing c ...

2024

C-shells: Deployable Gridshells with Curved Beams

Mark Pauly, Francis Julian Panetta, Yingying Ren, Quentin Christian Becker, Davide Pellis, Seiichi Eduardo Suzuki Erazo

We introduce a computational pipeline for simulating and designing C-shells, a new class of planar-to-spatial deployable linkage structures. A C-shell is composed of curved flexible beams connected at rotational joints that can be assembled in a stress-fre ...

2023

Computational Inverse Design of Surface-based Inflatables

Mark Pauly, Francis Julian Panetta, Florin Isvoranu, Tian Chen

We present a computational inverse design method for a new class of surface-based inflatable structure. Our deployable structures are fabricated by fusing together two layers of inextensible sheet material along carefully selected curves. The fusing curves ...

2021

Bistable Auxetic Surface Structures

Mark Pauly, Francis Julian Panetta, Tian Chen, Max Schnaubelt

We present Bistable Auxetic Surface Structures, a novel deployable material system based on optimized bistable auxetic cells. Such a structure can be flat-fabricated from elastic sheet material, then deployed towards a desired double-curved target shape by ...

2021

3D Weaving with Curved Ribbons

Mark Pauly, Francis Julian Panetta, Yingying Ren, Florin Isvoranu, Tian Chen, Samuel Jean Bernard Poincloux, Christopher Brandt

Basket weaving is a traditional craft for creating curved surfaces as an interwoven array of thin, flexible, and initially straight ribbons. The three-dimensional shape of a woven structure emerges through a complex interplay of the elastic bending behavio ...

2021

A Low-Parametric Rhombic Microstructure Family for Irregular Lattices

Francis Julian Panetta

New fabrication technologies have significantly decreased the cost of fabrication of shapes with highly complex geometric structure. One important application of complex fine-scale geometric structures is to create variable effective elastic material prope ...

2020

Method of encoding a 3d shape into a 2d surface

Mark Pauly, Mina Konakovic Lukovic, Francis Julian Panetta

The present invention concerns a method for encoding a given 3D shape into a target 2D linkage. The method comprises: (a) providing an initial 2D surface; and (b) defining on the initial 2D surface an auxetic pattern of geometric elements planarly linked b ...

2020

How to weave a perfect sphere with curved strips

Mark Pauly, Francis Julian Panetta, Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis, Yingying Ren, Tian Chen, Samuel Jean Bernard Poincloux

Triaxial weaving, a craft technique that enables the generation of surfaces with tri-directional arrays of initially straight elastic strips, has long been loved by basket makers and artists seeking a combination of practical and aesthetically-pleasing str ...

American Physical Society2020

X-Shells: A new class of deployable beam structures

Etienne Bouleau, Mark Pauly, Mina Konakovic Lukovic, Francis Julian Panetta, Florin Isvoranu

We present X-shells, a new class of deployable structures formed by an ensemble of elastically deforming beams coupled through rotational joints. An X-shell can be assembled conveniently in a flat configuration from standard elastic beam elements and then ...

2019

chi-Shell, a new spatial deployable lattice compared to traditional reticulated shells

Etienne Bouleau, Mark Pauly, Francis Julian Panetta, Florin Isvoranu

The chi-Shells is a new kind of deployable reticulated shells that has features comparable to other traditional shells. Its deployment uses the mechanical properties of a beam grid to generate a three-dimensional shape. This new generation of reticulated s ...

INT CENTER NUMERICAL METHODS ENGINEERING2019

X-Shell Pavilion: A Deployable Elastic Rod Structure

Etienne Bouleau, Mark Pauly, Francis Julian Panetta, Florin Isvoranu, Tian Chen

We present the X-Shell pavilion, a lightweight structure composed of elastic beam elements joined in a special layout that allows easy on-site deployment. The structure’s undeployed assembly configuration lies mostly flat and is easy to build, consisting o ...

Ingenta2019

X-Shell, a new spatial deployable lattice compared to traditional reticulated shells

Etienne Bouleau, Mark Pauly, Francis Julian Panetta, Florin Isvoranu

The χ-Shells is a new kind of deployable reticulated shells that has features comparable to other traditional shells. Its deployment uses the mechanical properties of a beam grid to generate a three-dimensional shape. This new generation of reticulated she ...

International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS)2019

Rapid Deployment of Curved Surfaces via Programmable Auxetics

Mark Pauly, Mina Konakovic Lukovic, Francis Julian Panetta

Deployable structures are physical mechanisms that can easily transition between two or more geometric configurations; such structures enable industrial, scientific, and consumer applications at a wide variety of scales. This paper develops novel deployabl ...

2018