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IUTAM SYMPOSIUM ON MECHANICS OF SOFT ACTIVE MATERIALS
Volume -, Issue -, Pages 193-203Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.piutam.2014.12.021
Keywords
Functionally gradient; shape memeory polymers; 3D printing; 4D printing; multimaterial printing
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- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn [1462894] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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In this paper, we demonstrate the feasibility of using 3D printing technique to create functional graded shape memory polymers (SMPs) with both spontaneous and sequential shape recovery abilities. The created SMP components, with properly assigned spatial variation of the thermodynamical property distribution, react rapidly to a thermal stimulus, and return to a specified configuration in a precisely controlled shape changing sequence. The use of the 3D printing technique enables a manufacturing routine with merits of easy implementation, large design freedom, and high printing resolution, which promises to advance immediate engineering applications for low-cost, rapid, and mass production. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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