The Automated Design of Materials Far From Equilibrium

The Automated Design of Materials Far From Equilibrium

by Marc Z. Miskin
ISBN-10:
3319369830
ISBN-13:
9783319369839
Pub. Date:
08/23/2016
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing
ISBN-10:
3319369830
ISBN-13:
9783319369839
Pub. Date:
08/23/2016
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing
The Automated Design of Materials Far From Equilibrium

The Automated Design of Materials Far From Equilibrium

by Marc Z. Miskin

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Overview

This thesis conceptualizes and implements a new framework for designing materials that are far from equilibrium. Starting with state-of-the-art optimization engines, it describes an automated system that makes use of simulations and 3D printing to find the material that best performs a user-specified goal. Identifying which microscopic features produce a desired macroscopic behavior is a problem at the forefront of materials science. This task is materials design, and within it, new goals and challenges have emerged from tailoring the response of materials far from equilibrium. These materials hold promising properties such as robustness, high strength, and self-healing. Yet without a general theory to predict how these properties emerge, designing and controlling them presents a complex and important problem. As proof of concept, the thesis shows how to design the behavior of granular materials, i.e., collections of athermal, macroscopic identical objects, by identifying the particle shapes that form the stiffest, softest, densest, loosest, most dissipative and strain-stiffening aggregates. More generally, the thesis shows how these results serve as prototypes for problems at the heart of materials design, and advocates the perspective that machines are the key to turning complex material forms into new material functions.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783319369839
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Publication date: 08/23/2016
Series: Springer Theses
Edition description: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Pages: 89
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Marc Miskin completed his doctoral studies at the James Franck Institute at The University of Chicago, Chicago, US with Professor Heinrich Jaeger. He is now affiliated with the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics at Cornell University, Ithaca, US.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Artificial Evolution.- Optimization.- Inverse Problems.- Transition of Designs.- Online Design.- Conclusions.
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