Kirigami is the Japanese art of paper cutting and folding, which combines the two techniques to create three-dimensional forms from a flat sheet of paper.

This project is inspired from my supvervisor's published work which can be found here, https://doi.org/10.1039/C8SM02082E or arxiv.

Following is a rubber sheet which has diamond shaped cut pattern. Funny thing of this specific sheet is that when you pull it from two opposite ends as shown in the image, the sheet moves up! This phenomenon is known as frustration.

My task for this project is to study the planar sheet and predict when it is going to move out of plane.