Additively manufactured polymer metamaterials
Polymeric parts constitute nowadays about 80% of all additively manufactured solutions in multiple industrial sectors, and similar statistics applies to metamaterials. Their practical use is however complicated by insufficient knowledge about material-structure interplay. This project aims at filling in this gap by studying the properties of additively manufactured polymers and elastic metamaterials made of them.
Part 1.
Additively manufactured polymers have been widely used for producing elastic metamaterials. The viscoelastic behavior of these polymers at ultrasonic frequencies remains, however, poorly studied. This study reports a protocol to estimate the viscoelastic properties of 3D-printed polymers and show how to use them to analyze the metamaterial dynamics.
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Curious to know more? Read this paper or watch the movie.​
Jelmer de Laat
Passionate Mechanical Engineering M.Sc. student working on the application of polymer metamaterials to attenuate structural vibrations
Our team
Sidharth Beniwal
My research interests involve phononic crystals, acoustic metamaterials, additive manufacturing, and finite element analysis. With a master's in ceramic metamaterials from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (India), resulting in two publications. I aspire to become a professor and an expert in the field of metamaterials.
Beyond academia, I love sports and you can often see me either on a football field or squash court.
Anastasiia Krushynska
Project coordinator
Joelle Lap
Enthusiastic IEM MSc student working on the effects of density on the dynamic properties of additively manufactured polymers and elastic metamaterials
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