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SUMMARY:Self Healing Materials : an alternative approach to making materia
 ls and structures more durable
DTSTART:20101029T141500
DTSTAMP:20260916T090222Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Sybrand van der Zwaag\, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering
 \, TU Delft\, The Netherlands\nTraditionally properties of materials have 
 been improved via microstructual design aimed to slow down the damage deve
 lopement under load or use and the development of zero-defect production t
 echnologies. Hence\, all our development work is based on the Damage Preve
 ntion paradigm. Nature\, in constrast\, seeems to have optimised materials
  via the Damage Management concept : i.e. the occurrence of damage during 
 use is taken as unavoidable and to compensate for this damage the material
 s have built in healing mechanisms.\nIn this talk some of the novel routes
  to self healing in a range of modern engineering materials\, such as poly
 mers\, composites\, metals\, asphalt\, ceramics and concrete will be prese
 nted. Each of the routes respects the character of the matrix material to 
 be modified. Some potential applications are also presented.
LOCATION:MXF 1 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MXF%201
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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