Architected materials
Event details
| Date | 12.05.2022 |
| Hour | 16:00 › 17:00 |
| Speaker | Prof. Dennis M. Kochmann Mechanics and Materials Laboratory, ETH Zürich |
| Location | Online |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | English |
Abstract: Architected materials (often referred to as mechanical metamaterials) have gained tremendous attention over the past decade. Across engineering disciplines, the modeling, design, fabrication, and characterization of such cellular solids, which derive their properties from small-scale structural architecture, has resulted in a myriad of materials systems with as-designed, optimized mechanical properties – from high stiffness- and strength-to-weight ratios to energy absorption and wave guidance all the way to active and smart reconfigurability. The dream has been to revolutionize our approach to selecting materials for engineering applications: away from property look-up tables for available materials, towards the on-demand creation of novel architected materials with controllable or extreme properties and functionality. Focusing on mechanical properties, we will discuss to what extent this has become the new reality and what challenges we are facing. We will highlight recent examples of modeling and reverse-engineering architected materials with tunable stiffness, toughness, wave motion, shape morphing, and more, and we present experimental examples of their realization and application. This sets the stage for discussing what has been achieved and what lies ahead.
Practical information
- General public
- Registration required
- This event is internal
Organizer
- Prof. George Haller - ETHZ Prof. John Kolinski - EPFL
Contact
- Prof. Kolinski STI-IGM-EMSI