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Design and Fabrication of Materials with Desired Deformation Behavior

Publication

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2010)

Authors

Bernd Bickel, Moritz Bacher, Miguel A. Otaduy, Hyunho Richard Lee, Hanspeter Pfister, Markus Gross, Wojciech Matusik

Abstract

This paper introduces a data-driven process for designing and fabricating materials with desired deformation behavior. Our process starts with measuring deformation properties of base materials. For each base material we acquire a set of example deformations, and we represent the material as a non-linear stress-strain relationship in a finite-element model. We have validated our material measurement process by comparing simulations of arbitrary stacks of base materials with measured deformations of fabricated material stacks. After material measurement, our process continues with designing stacked layers of base materials. We introduce an optimization process that finds the best combination of stacked layers that meets a user’s criteria specified by example deformations. Our algorithm employs a number of strategies to prune poor solutions from the combinatorial search space. We demonstrate the complete process by designing and fabricating objects with complex heterogeneous materials using modern multi-material 3D printers.

Paper

Bic10.pdf

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