MME Graduate Seminar: Biomechanical Investigation of Plant Vascular Tissue for Bio-Inspired Design - Dr. Mukesh Roy
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Friday, October 8, 2021 at 3:00pm to 4:30pm
College of Engineering and Computing, EC 1107 10555 West Flagler Street Miami FL 33174
Since the inception of evolution, nature has continuously optimized all the natural materials. These optimizations are so efficient that scientists and engineers have started taking inspiration from nature. Such inspiration-based solutions provide sustainable development of new materials with enhanced structural properties and functionalities (such as stiffness, stability, toughness, self-healing etc.). This variety of properties and functionalities is mainly due to the hierarchical organization of such components. Abstraction of the hidden cues of the hierarchical organization, principles and underlying structure-function relations are some of the critical approaches of bioinspired materials design. Inspiration from animals and plants has helped develop the design concept of aerodynamics, robotics, tissue scaffolding, composites materials and construction. However, while studying both systems (animal and plant), significant effort has been focused on rigid natural composites such as bone, wood, and bamboo for designing structures optimized for strength, toughness, and density. So, in this talk we will discuss about the plant vascular tissue characterization for flexible biocomposites.
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