PhD position Dynamics of 3D-printed polymer metamaterials in Netherlands
PhD position Dynamics of 3D-printed polymer metamaterials Job description We are looking for a PhD candidate to develop, manufacture, and test elastic metamaterials with unusual dynamic properties that can be produced from polymers by additive manufacturing techniques and possess desired (practically advantageous) material behavior (e.g., reduced brittleness, controllable viscosity, improved flexibility, etc.). Elastic metamaterials extend traditional limits on material and mechanical behavior by tailoring the geometry and arrangement of constituent building blocks. Recent designs of the metamaterials reveal counterintuitive properties such as auxetic behavior (expanding when stretched), energy focusing (lensing), and cloaking (making an embedded object unnoticed). Ideally, these and other functionalities are governed solely by the geometry of building blocks (the metamaterial architecture)and are independent of the properties of base materials. In practice, however, the mechanic...
