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AM Webinars

Additive manufacturing (AM) is used in different industries, creating a “channel” for transferring ideas across disciplines. Through the wide use of AM in engineering, biology, and even art, it is clear that structures are everywhere. Therefore, it can be applied to translate properties that are encoded in structures in one field, to structures in other fields, allowing to break glass ceiling in manufacturing new structural designs with desired properties.
In the presentation, we will focus on the emerging similarity between protein structures and origami models [1], are how their design and unique mechanical properties can be translated, via AM, to new structural models. For example, a manufactured AM model, which is designed to mimic the topology of a protein, where the ability to encode flexure joints and linkages according to mathematical logic, allows mimicking the folding of a sheet of paper into a cylinder with a tessellated pattern.