UTILIZING BILAYER SHRINKAGE TO ASSEMBLE COMPLEX CERAMIC SHAPES

Alexander R. Hartwell, Nathaniel Slabaugh, Jeongmin Ahn

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Abstract

The art and engineering worlds have exemplified the power of ceramic materials in seemingly limitless applications for millennia. Despite these achievements, limitations have been pervasive with regards to obtainable final geometries. To continue to expand the repertoire of achievable ceramic forms, a variety of advanced manufacturing techniques have been explored. One method, increasingly common within the world of soft matter, is self-assembly. By utilizing deformation behaviors of materials through swelling, shrinking, stiffening, relaxing, etc. materials can form themselves into seemingly unimaginable shapes. Though it is less intuitive to apply this idea to the seemingly rigid medium of ceramics, this work shows it is possible by utilizing bilayer shrinkage. Through a combination of computational simulation and experiment, predictions for curvature as well as the final shape of the ceramic composite are made. Unexpected behaviors at the macroscale and microscale are discussed as targets for future investigation. Both within the fundamental world of material behavior as well as in the realm of engineering application, this method shows tremendous potential.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMechanics of Solids, Structures, and Fluids; Micro- and Nano-Systems Engineering and Packaging; Safety Engineering, Risk, and Reliability Analysis; Research Posters
PublisherAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
ISBN (Electronic)9780791886717
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
EventASME 2022 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2022 - Columbus, United States
Duration: Oct 30 2022Nov 3 2022

Publication series

NameASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)
Volume9

Conference

ConferenceASME 2022 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityColumbus
Period10/30/2211/3/22

Keywords

  • Ceramics
  • advanced manufacturing
  • origami
  • self-assembling
  • solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Mechanical Engineering

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