Juan Vega
Pronouns: He/Him
Research Mentor(s): Serife Tol
Co-Presenter:
Research Mentor School/College/Department: Mechanical Engineering / Engineering
Presentation Date: April 20
Presentation Type: Poster
Session: Session 5 – 3:40pm – 4:30 pm
Room: League Ballroom
Authors:
Presenter: 118
Abstract
The lab’s goal is to develop structures that can actively respond to incident vibrations. These “metamaterials†are solid structures whose layout will create band gaps at specific frequency ranges, meaning that no waves can propagate in the specified range. This allows for the reconfiguration of an incident wave into a desired configuration. These structures are usually fixed and rigid, the lab is currently working on using 4D printing (3D printing techniques using shape changing materials) to make metamaterial structures that can be programmed and reconfigured in order to adapt to several incident wave configurations with the same output or vice versa. Following an extensive literature review on several folding patterns and materials used for reconfigurable metamaterials, a foldable design implementing foldable shape memory alloys was chosen for it was more appropriate to fulfill one of the lab’s ultimate goals -mitigating vibrations in colliding vehicles. The research is currently centered around exploring the properties of foldable metasurfaces, hence, simulations were performed using Comsol Multiphysics to establish theoretical behavior of variations of a metasurface design in order to experiment physically with the configuration that delivers the most promising results.
Engineering
