Active Composites by 4D Printing - Jerry H. Qi

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Recent advances in additive manufacturing allow the precise placement of multiple materials at micrometer resolution with essentially no restrictions on the geometric complexity of the spatial arrangement. Complex 3D solids thus can be created with highly non-regular material distributions in an optimal fashion, enabling the fabrication of devices with unprecedented multifunctional performance. In this work, we exploit these advances and introduce a paradigm of active composites by 4D printing where the shape of printed 3D object can change upon external stimuli, thus offering one additional dimension, time, for shape forming and control. In this talk, we demonstrate this concept by printing shape memory fibers (SMF) composites. We directly print a composite in its initial 3D configuration from a CAD file that specifies the shape memory fiber (SMF) architecture at the lamina and laminate level. Later, the programmed action of the SMFs creates time dependence of the composite configuration change. This process has considerable design freedom to enable creation of composites with complex and controllable anisotropic thermomechanical behavior via the prescribed fiber architecture, shape, size, orientation and even spatial variation of these parameters. We design and print laminates in thin plate form that can be programmed to assume complex three-dimensional configurations including bent, coiled, and twisted strips, folded shapes (origami), and complex contoured shapes with non-uniform, spatially-varying curvature.

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Tags: nano@tech lecture seriesinstitute for electronics and nanotechnologygeorgia techrecorded by gtlibraryfall 2014

name: Jerry H. Qi
Date: September 9th, 2014
Appears In: Fy1415 Open Scholarship

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