探索能力4D打印，成员机器人建筑（RB）研究小组在Delft University of Technology(TU Delft) in the Netherlands, have created a 3D printed chaise lounge that can swiftly transform into a bed.
Project: Adaptive Stiffness
去年，Tu Delft副教授Henriette Bier兼RB集团负责人和Arwin Hidding（M.Arch）开始了可变的刚度项目，以创建适应用户需求的多功能家具。
With numerical and experimental studies, structural analysis, robotic path simulations, and robotic 3D printing, the RB team were able to produce an adaptive geometry of a chaise-longue which accommodates the average human body size and weight. Whether sitting or laying down, the user’s physical pressure actuates the chaise-lounge, allowing it to change shape.
According to the RB team, this shape change is achieved by combining variations in material distribution as well as the use of thermoplastic rubber and elastomers (TPE). When above its melt temperature, this material can be molded into a particular shape while maintaining elastomeric behavior without cross-linking polymers during fabrication. As a result of TPE, the chaise-lounge’s shape can be reversed into its primary rigid structure.
4D打印和TU代尔夫特
4D打印的概念允许许多物体重新构想，包括家具。在这个概念中，2D聚合物结构可以对环境变化（即热，压力或水分）做出反应，并将其自身转变为新的预定的3D形状。因此，潜力自组装的平板家具可以开发。
Tu Delft的研究人员以前已经证明了3D印刷聚合物用于医疗设备的自我折叠功能。Last year, Amir Zadpoor, Associate Professor in the Department of Biomechanical Engineering, TU Delft, and his team created a3D printed shape-shifting tulip, as a proof-of-concept for功能性骨植入物。
Following this, Professor Zadpoor and his team utilized auxetic metamaterials, advanced materials which deform under pressure, and electric and sonic manipulation, to create a durable3D印刷钛髋关节植入物。
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