Polytope Sector-Based Synthesis and Analysis of Microarchitectured Materials With Tunable Thermal Conductivity and Expansion
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Author(s)
Spadaccini, Christopher M.
Hopkins, Jonathan B.
Fang, Xuanlai
Lee, Howon
Date Issued
August 2015
Journal
Volume 2B: 41st Design Automation Conference
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ASME International
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Hopkins, Jonathan B., Howon Lee, Nicholas X. Fang, and Christopher M. Spadaccini. “Polytope Sector-Based Synthesis and Analysis of Microarchitectured Materials With Tunable Thermal Conductivity and Expansion.” Volume 2B: 41st Design Automation Conference (August 2, 2015), Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2015. © ASME International 2015
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Abstract
The aim of this paper is to (1) introduce an approach, called Polytope Sector-based Synthesis, for synthesizing 2D or 3D microstructural architectures that exhibit a desired bulk-property directionality (e.g., isotropic, cubic, orthotropic, etc.), and (2) provide general analytical methods that can be used to rapidly optimize the geometric parameters of these architectures such that they achieve a desired combination of bulk thermal conductivity and thermal expansion properties. Although the methods introduced can be applied to general beam-based microstructural architectures, we demonstrate their utility in the context of an architecture that can be tuned to achieve a large range of extreme thermal expansion coefficients — positive, zero, and negative. The material-property-combination region that can be achieved by this architecture is determined within an Ashby-material-property plot of thermal expansion vs. thermal conductivity using the analytical methods introduced. Both 2D and 3D versions of the design have been fabricated using projection microstereolithography.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
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https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2015-46645
