מרץ 28, 1994 - מרץ 28, 2027

  • Date:14חמישייוני 2018

    Making Faces: Universal Inverse Design of Surfaces with Anisotropic Soft Materials

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    שעה
    11:15 - 12:30
    מיקום
    בניין הפיסיקה ע"ש עדנה וק.ב. וייסמן
    Auditorium
    מרצה
    Hillel Aharoni
    University of Pennsylvania
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    Elastic bodies can be programmed to take different shapes in different environments using stimulus-responsive anisotropic materials, where the route of shape changes is encoded in the local direction of material anisotropy at every point. In this talk I tackle the key theoretical question underlying many recent efforts to implement this approach — the inverse design problem — namely, given an arbitrary shape, constructing the anisotropy field that would induce it. I show analytical solutions to certain classes of this problem and a numerical algorithm to construct any surface geometry, and I resolve the problem of properly converting these 2D geometries into their destined 3D shapes. Finally, I team up with an experimental group in realizing this scheme by imprinting our numerical solutions into liquid crystalline elastomer sheets. We show success in experimentally producing flat rubber-like sheets that, upon heating, take an arbitrary preprogrammed desired shape, such as a face.
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