Printed bistable structures that deploy and reconfigure

Deployable structures ship flat but tend to deploy imprecisely and cannot bear load once open. We build reconfigurable structures from a single multi-material 3D print whose deployed states are prescribed, stable, and load-bearing. The unit is a bistable actuator that snaps between two stable states; pairing it with a shape-memory polymer makes deployment autonomous and sequenceable, triggered by ambient heat with no power. An inverse-design method discretizes any target surface as a Chebyshev net and places actuators along the diagonals, so one flat print reconfigures into multiple distinct, stable, curved surfaces.