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Roadside pillars on an origami-inspired folding base could block traffic noise without restricting a driver’s view. That’s the hope for a new kind of “sonic barrier” proposed by Manoj Thota and ...

Illustrations of different folding configurations of origami sonic barrier and their corresponding cross section views. The pink polygons in cross section views identify different lattice patterns and ...