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Articles | Volume 4, issue 2
Articles | Volume 4, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/ms-4-371-2013
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Research article
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15 Nov 2013
Research article |  | 15 Nov 2013

Origami-like creases in sheet materials for compliant mechanism design

K. C. Francis, J. E. Blanch, S. P. Magleby, and L. L. Howell

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