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Date(s) - August 16, 2023
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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About this event:
OncoEng, in particular its OncoEng+ network, together with colleagues at BioTrib are pleased to announce the following seminar, by Dr Tino Stankovic, ETH Zurich
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Abstract:
The first part of the talk will focus on the computational design of lattice structures, as well as application of computational design in personalized medicine. Lattice structures are characterized by slender bars or rods and built from one or multiple solid base materials. Enabled by rapid advances in additive manufacturing, lattice structures offer a huge variety of different designs with a great potential to realize structures with advanced macroscopic mechanical and physical properties. To support the computational design of lattice structures, I will present our research in which we systematically explore and interpret a wide range of crystallographic periodic network topologies from a structural point of view, and show how to use the language of crystallography for the generative design of lattice structures. The first part of the talk will conclude with demonstrating how computational design can be applied to assist developing new concepts in personalized medicine with applications for the design of an artificial spinal disc.
The second part of the talk focuses on the computational design of origami-adapted structures. Origami transforms a flat sheet of paper into almost any three-dimensional object through a series of paper folds. This special property of origami to fold into almost any shape renders their application in the design of structures a conceptually promising direction in which advanced mechanical and physical properties can be configured based on the specific geometries a structure exhibits during the folding motion. I will present the research conducted in our lab to make origami and its governing principles readily accessible to engineering design practitioners and researchers alike. Providing the capability to efficiently search the configuration space of origami and discover new crease patterns using advanced computational methods, is essential for supporting the design of origami-adapted structures. Our research takes an approach which builds on generalized conditions for rigid foldability to design origami patterns of arbitrary size and complexity. The versatility of the approach allows to not only generate, analyze and optimize regular origami patterns, but also generate and analyze kirigami, generic three-dimensional panel-hinge assemblages and their tessellations. As a result, the approach provides an inexhaustible source of foldable patterns to inspire and support the design of origami-adapted structures for a wide range of applications.
Bio:
Tino Stankovic is a senior scientist at Engineering Design and Computing Laboratory at ETH Zürich in Switzerland. His research focuses on developing computational models, methods and tools to support the design for additive manufacturing as well as design optimization, and design automation. Current interests include development of advanced computational design methods to automatically generate and optimize lattice structures, computational design of metamaterials, computational design of origami-adapted rigid-foldable structures, and computational design of 3D printed, personalized medical devices. Tino Stankovic serves as a reviewer for several established scientific journals and conferences. He is a member of the Design Society.
OncoEng:
OncoEng is a UKRI EPSRC funded flagship programme grant concerned with research into the identification and prophylactic intervention of metastatic bone disease in the spine. It comprises a collaboration between the University of Leeds, Imperial College London and University College London. OncoEng+ network brings together a researchers and innovators from a wide set of disciplines with the UK and abroad to tackle the challenges that underpin cancer using engineering and the physical sciences.
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