Webinar: Mechanics of Architected Materials Across Length and Time Scales
Join Carlos Portela – d’Arbeloff Career Development Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – to explore the advances in our understanding of architected materials.
Webinar: Mechanics of Architected Materials Across Length and Time Scales
08 Apr 2022, 14:00 – 15:00
What the webinar will address
Architected materials are everywhere in nature and enable unique properties that are unachievable by monolithic and homogeneous materials.
While human-made 3D architected materials have been found to enable novel mechanical properties – such as high stiffness-to-density ratios or extreme resilience, most architected materials have relied on advanced additive manufacturing techniques that are not yet scalable and yield small sample sizes.
Most of these nano and micro-architected materials have only been studied in the static regime, leaving the dynamic parameter space unexplored. In this talk, we will explore the advances in our understanding of architected materials by: (i) proposing numerical and theoretical tools that predict the behavior of architected materials with non-ideal geometries; (ii) presenting a pathway for scalable fabrication of tunable nano-architected materials; and (iii) exploring the response of nano- and micro-architected materials under three types of dynamic loading.
The talk will be taking place on 8 April, from 2–3pm via Zoom.
Professor Carlos Portela
Carlos Portela is the d’Arbeloff Career Development Professor in Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He received his PhD and MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, where he was given the Centennial Award for the best thesis in Mechanical and Civil Engineering. He has also received degrees in Aerospace Engineering (BSc) and Physics (BA) from the University of Southern California. His current research lies at the intersection of materials science, mechanics, and nano-to-macro fabrication with the objective of designing and testing novel materials that yield unprecedented mechanical and acoustic properties.
Carlos's recent accomplishments include being awarded the 2022 NSF CAREER Award and the 2019 Gold Paper Award from the Society of Engineering Science (SES). His work has also been featured in The National Nanotechnology Initiative Supplement to the President’s 2020 Budget (National Science and Technology Council).