Micro-architectured cellular materials: design, manufacture and applications
Event details
| Date | 10.09.2014 |
| Hour | 18:00 › 19:30 |
| Speaker |
Prof Vikram Deshpande, Cambridge University Bio : Vikram Deshpande completed his PhD in Engineering at Cambridge University in 1998 and joined the faculty of Engineering as a lecturer in October 2001. He was promoted to a professorship in Materials Engineering in 2010 and currently also holds a Visiting Professorship at Eindhoven University Mechanical Engineering Department. He was a tenured Associate Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 2007-2008, and has written more than 160 journal articles in the experimental and theoretical mechanics of materials. His current research interests include: mechanics of foams and lattice materials, dynamic behaviour of structures, micro-mechanics of discrete dislocation plasticity and mechanics of composites. |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Micro-architectured cellular materials offer the opportunity of obtaining unique combinations of material properties. First, a historical perspective is given to the expansion of material property space by the introduction of new alloys and new microstructures. Second, principles of design of the micro-architecture are discussed for single-scale and multi-scale microstructures along with the manufacturing challenges of such materials. The stiffness, strength and damage tolerance of these materials are then reviewed and compared with those of fully dense solids. It is demonstrated that micro-architectured materials are able to occupy regions of material property space (such as high stiffness, strength and fracture toughness at low density) that were hitherto empty. Finally, applications of these materials in lightweight structural designs are discussed and challenges for future developments highlighted.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- EDME
Contact
- Martina Keddouh - Géraldine Palaj