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University of Southern California: Los Angeles, CA, US

Assistant Professor (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering)
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Paul Plucinsky

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California Institute of Technology: Pasadena, CA, US

2012-09-01 to present | PhD (Mechanical Engineering)
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Paul Plucinsky

Works (27)

Derivation of an effective plate theory for parallelogram origami from bar and hinge elasticity

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
2024-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Hu Xu; Ian Tobasco; Paul Plucinsky
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Programming bistability in geometrically perturbed mechanical metamaterials

Physical Review Applied
2024-07-29 | Journal article
Contributors: Yingchao Peng; Imtiar Niloy; Megan Kam; Paolo Celli; Paul Plucinsky
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Modelling planar kirigami metamaterials as generalized elastic continua

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
2023-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Y. Zheng; I. Niloy; I. Tobasco; P. Celli; P. Plucinsky
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Inverse design of deployable origami structures that approximate a general surface

International Journal of Solids and Structures
2022 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85114707235

Part of ISSN: 00207683
Contributors: Dang, X.; Feng, F.; Plucinsky, P.; James, R.D.; Duan, H.; Wang, J.
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Paul Plucinsky via Scopus - Elsevier

Modeling planar kirigami metamaterials as generalized elastic continua

arXiv
2022 | Other
EID:

2-s2.0-85132282620

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Zheng, Y.; Tobasco, I.; Celli, P.; Plucinsky, P.
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Paul Plucinsky via Scopus - Elsevier

Continuum Field Theory for the Deformations of Planar Kirigami

Physical Review Letters
2022-05-20 | Journal article
Contributors: Yue Zheng; Imtiar Niloy; Paolo Celli; Ian Tobasco; Paul Plucinsky
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Continuum field theory for the deformations of planar kirigami

arXiv
2021 | Other
EID:

2-s2.0-85126498404

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Zheng, Y.; Niloy, I.; Celli, P.; Tobasco, I.; Plucinsky, P.
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Paul Plucinsky via Scopus - Elsevier

Origami and materials science

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
2021 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85106761156

Part of ISSN: 1364503X
Contributors: Liu, H.; Plucinsky, P.; Feng, F.; James, R.D.
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Paul Plucinsky via Scopus - Elsevier

Origami-inspired thin-film shape memory alloy devices

Scientific Reports
2021 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85106907839

Part of ISSN: 20452322
Contributors: Velvaluri, P.; Soor, A.; Plucinsky, P.; de Miranda, R.L.; James, R.D.; Quandt, E.
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Paul Plucinsky via Scopus - Elsevier

Branching of twins in shape memory alloys revisited

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85084183269

Part of ISSN: 00225096
Contributors: Seiner, H.; Plucinsky, P.; Dabade, V.; Benešová, B.; James, R.D.
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Paul Plucinsky via Scopus - Elsevier

Inverse design of deployable origami structures that approximate a general surface

arXiv
2020 | Other
EID:

2-s2.0-85104406314

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Dang, X.; Feng, F.; Plucinsky, P.; James, R.D.; Duan, H.; Wang, J.
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Paul Plucinsky via Scopus - Elsevier

Origami and materials science

arXiv
2020 | Other
EID:

2-s2.0-85098368515

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Liu, H.; Plucinsky, P.; Feng, F.; James, R.D.
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Paul Plucinsky via Scopus - Elsevier

The designs and deformations of rigidly and flat-foldable quadrilateral mesh origami

arXiv
2020 | Other
EID:

2-s2.0-85098359784

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Feng, F.; Dang, X.; James, R.D.; Plucinsky, P.
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Paul Plucinsky via Scopus - Elsevier

The designs and deformations of rigidly and flat-foldable quadrilateral mesh origami

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
2020 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-85085731424

Part of ISSN: 00225096
Contributors: Feng, F.; Dang, X.; James, R.D.; Plucinsky, P.
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Paul Plucinsky via Scopus - Elsevier

Helical Miura origami

Physical Review E
2020-03-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2470-0045
Contributors: Fan Feng; Paul Plucinsky; Richard D. James
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Branching of twins in shape memory alloys revisited

arXiv
2019 | Other
EID:

2-s2.0-85093576570

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Seiner, H.; Plucinsky, P.; Dabade, V.; Benešová, B.; James, R.D.
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Paul Plucinsky via Scopus - Elsevier

Helical Miura Origami

arXiv
2019 | Other
EID:

2-s2.0-85094502148

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Feng, F.; Plucinsky, P.; James, R.D.
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Paul Plucinsky via Scopus - Elsevier

Phase transformations and compatibility in helical structures

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
2019-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0022-5096
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Paul Plucinsky
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Actuation of Thin Nematic Elastomer Sheets with Controlled Heterogeneity

Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85029582800

Contributors: Plucinsky, P.; Lemm, M.; Bhattacharya, K.
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Paul Plucinsky via Scopus - Elsevier

Patterning nonisometric origami in nematic elastomer sheets

Soft Matter
2018 | Journal article
Contributors: Paul Plucinsky; Benjamin A. Kowalski; Timothy J. White; Kaushik Bhattacharya
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Phase transformations and compatibility in helical structures

arXiv
2018 | Other
EID:

2-s2.0-85093420120

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Feng, F.; Plucinsky, P.; James, R.D.
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Paul Plucinsky via Scopus - Elsevier

Combining load-controlled and displacement-controlled algorithms to model thermal-mechanical snap-through instabilities in structures

Journal of Engineering Mechanics
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85018950977

Contributors: Liu, N.; Plucinsky, P.; Jeffers, A.E.
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Paul Plucinsky via Scopus - Elsevier

Microstructure-enabled control of wrinkling in nematic elastomer sheets

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85014597433

Contributors: Plucinsky, P.; Bhattacharya, K.
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Paul Plucinsky via Scopus - Elsevier

Patterning nonisometric origami in nematic elastomer sheets

arXiv
2017 | Other
EID:

2-s2.0-85095075506

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Plucinsky, P.; Kowalski, B.A.; White, T.J.; Bhattacharya, K.
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Paul Plucinsky via Scopus - Elsevier

Programming complex shapes in thin nematic elastomer and glass sheets

Physical Review E
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84979210798

Contributors: Plucinsky, P.; Lemm, M.; Bhattacharya, K.
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Effective Behavior of Nematic Elastomer Membranes

Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84938548585

Contributors: Cesana, P.; Plucinsky, P.; Bhattacharya, K.
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Paul Plucinsky via Scopus - Elsevier

The designs and deformations of rigidly and flat-foldable quadrilateral mesh origami

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