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SUMMARY:MEchanics GAthering -MEGA- Seminar: Kirigami-inspired architected 
 materials
DTSTART:20181011T161500
DTEND:20181011T173000
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DESCRIPTION:Ahmad Rafsanjani\, ETH Zürich\nKirigami - the ancient Japan
 ese art of cutting paper - has recently inspired the design of highly stre
 tchable and morphable mechanical metamaterials that can be easily realized
  by embedding an array of cuts into a thin sheet. In this talk\, I focus o
 n several mechanical systems which all share an attractive feature: they a
 re all manufactured flat and by harnessing large deformations and elastic 
 instabilities they can be transformed into complex three-dimensional confi
 gurations while the bulk material remains in the nearly linear regime. Fin
 ally\, I demonstrate the potential application of kirigami-inspired archit
 ected materials in morphable structures\, propagation of large deformation
 s and even in soft robots!\n\nBio I am Ahmad Rafsanjani (1984)\, a mechan
 ical engineer and received my PhD from ETH Zurich in 2013 working on mecha
 nics and swelling behavior of wood. Following my doctoral studies\, I rece
 ived two SNSF postdoc mobility fellowships and joined first Prof. Damiano 
 Pasini’s group at McGill University and later Prof. Katia Bertoldi’s g
 roup at Harvard University where I worked on mechanical design of architec
 ted materials with a focus on multistable structures\, kirigami metamateri
 als and soft robots. Since March 2018\, I returned to ETH Zurich under SNS
 F Return-CH postdoc program and joined Prof. André Studart’s Complex Ma
 terials group to explore 3D printing of such structure.
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