Organizers:
- Renee Zhao, Stanford University
- Jerry Qi, Georgia Tech
- Samantha Averitt, Stanford University
Description:
Functional soft composite materials are recently becoming an emerging field in scientific research and engineering innovation. They are distinct from traditional materials and composites, due to their unprecedented potential of wide range property tuning, large shape changing, and self-adaptivity. By integrating soft matrix with functional ingredients such as stimuli-responsive particles and mechanophores, soft composites could enable multifunctional material and structural systems with for applications in soft actuators, soft robotics, flexible electronics, metamaterials, and biomedical engineering. The development of functional soft composites synergistically integrates design, mechanics, and manufacturing. This symposium will represent the emerging and recent advances in soft composite materials with a focus on the design concept, design method, modeling and simulation, and fabrication, as well as their novel engineering applications across a wide range of engineering fields.
Topics of interest:
Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Novel concept and design methodology of soft composites with novel properties and functionalities
- Stimuli-responsive soft composites and their applications
- Soft composites for soft robotics
- Active and programmable metamaterials
- Advanced manufacturing of soft composites
- Multiphysics coupling of soft composites and their applications
- Constitutive modeling of soft composite material behavior