Fluid Formations: Design and Fabrication of Soft Matter Structures with Functional Stiffness Gradients
Description
Functionally graded objects take advantage of heterogeneous material properties to fulfill different design requirements as a single entity. A combinatory approach of material engineering and liquid additive manufacturing is implemented in this project to create functional stiffness-graded objects with continuous mechanical property gradients. These property gradients are then utilized for the fabrication of objects with programmable behaviour in response to applied forces.
Project Development
ITECH M.Sc. Thesis Project 2017, ICD/ITKE, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Fluid Formations – Design and Fabrication of Soft Matter Structures with Functional Stiffness Gradients
Pedro Giachini, Sachin Gupta
Author and Image Credit
Pedro Giachini, Sachin Gupta
Thesis Advisers
Dylan Wood, Ehsan Baharlou with Wendong Wang
Thesis Supervisor
Prof. Achim Menges
Second Supervisor
Prof. Jan Knippers
with Prof. Metin Sitti (Max-Planck Institute)