Developable Strips, 2015

This Research Presents a method to fabricate free-form geometries by dividing them into discreet, developable pieces. The pieces are developable, single-curved and as flat as possible and rational in terms of total number of pieces. The aim is to make any arbitrary free-form manufacturable by 2D low-tech machinery with no need to use CNC/Robotic Folding and also minimizing the residual bending stress in each piece. Two geometrical Algorithms are developed to do so and as an example, have implied on two arbitrary geometries.