We design flexible microstructures that emulate desired elastic materials over finite regions of macrosopic strain space.
We optimize patterns that, when cut into a flat rubber sheet, produce *bistable* auxetic metamaterials encoding curved target geometries.
New fabrication technologies have significantly decreased the cost of fabrication of shapes with highly complex geometric structure. One important application of complex fine-scale geometric structures is to create variable effective elastic material …
We program curved surfaces into flat sheets by optimizing a strain-limited auxetic metamaterial.
We introduce an efficient worst-case analysis for periodic microstructures and use it to design robust microstructures.
My thesis develops tools for designing and analyzing objects that leverage the flexibility and resolution of 3D printing.
This poster summaries our Elastic Textures paper and ongoing work on worst-case stress minimization.
We design 3D-printable elastic metamaterials and use them to create deformable objects with single-material printers.