{"id":457,"date":"2015-09-21T17:36:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T17:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/?p=457"},"modified":"2015-09-21T17:40:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T17:40:40","slug":"how-to-find-the-strongest-shapes-with-3d-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"How to find the strongest shapes with 3D printing:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20130225_Jaeger.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-458\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20130225_Jaeger.jpg\" alt=\"20130225_Jaeger\" width=\"470\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a>3D printing technology has opened up countless ways to carry out and model experiments. This is exactly what\u00a0Prof. Heinrich Jaeger&#8217;s lab at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchicago.edu\" target=\"_blank\">University of Chicago<\/a> has been doing to test the complex properties\u00a0of different shapes.\u00a0One topic that the research group has been looking into is the process of jamming of randomly placed particles (which can be spheres or more complex shapes) that move from fluid-like to solid-like behaviour.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n1KkMQxTM6E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The team tried\u00a0to find out which particle shape would give the best outcome in terms of stiffness or softness with a certain\u00a0applied force. The computer began by designing randomly shaped particles for testing and then altering the particles slightly based on the testing feedback to find out what the optimum shape was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3D printing technology has opened up countless ways to carry out and model experiments. This is exactly what\u00a0Prof. Heinrich Jaeger&#8217;s lab at the University of Chicago has been doing to test the complex properties\u00a0of different shapes.\u00a0One topic that the research group has been looking into is the process of jamming of randomly placed particles (which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/?p=457\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to find the strongest shapes with 3D printing:<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[28,33,32,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}