Date: Friday, April 26, 2024
Time: 11 a.m.
Location: Donovan Hall 1193

Title: Bioinspired Design of Fracture Resistant Structures

Biological materials often show superior fracture resistance while maintaining moderate density, stiffness, strength, and other materials properties. This talk will present a recent progress on bioinspired design of fracture resistant structures. The study combines 3D-printing assisted fabrication, state-of-the-art materials characterization, multiscale mechanical examination, computational simulation, and analytical modeling. The short-term goal is to enhance the fracture resistances of the structures for applications such as flexible electronics, smartphone adhesives, dental composites, and so on. The long-term goal is to establish a mechanistically based platform for the design of fracture resistant structures.