Surface micro material
From TTU College of Architecture
Dynamic Skin
2010 -
The process and understanding of materials through their performance, maintenance, and stability empowers the architect and engineer with endless possibilities for building not unlike biomedical applications. The concept of a self-healing material in building applications has marked a trend for industrial and fabrication experiments and productions worldwide. In this specific application, a building skin, the notion of self-healing relates to the thermodynamic systems that respond to a series of parameters dictated by the material composition and properties.
For this process, we will investigate the materiality of a fiber reinforced polymer that uses thermal dynamics for healing and flexibility to give direct control over skin and compositional experiences. The “…mimicry of these integrated microstructures and micro-mechanisms offer considerable potential to engineers…” and architects, “…in design and continual improvement of material performance”[17], which forms the intended core of this research project.
ddf M.S. students:
-Rob Diaz
-Dung Do
Advisor:
Prof. Pongratz, College of Architecture
Prof. Iris Rivero, College of Engineering
link to> pongratz perbellini research
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