Simon Laflamme from Iowa State University will present the Durham School Distinguished Lecture – “3D Printing for Smart Resilience” – Friday, Dec. 12 from 12:15-1:15. In-person sites are PKI 160 (Scott Campus) and Kiewit Hall A253 (City Campus) or via Zoom. To get that link or reserve a boxed lunch, click the link below by Tuesday, Dec. 9.
About the lecture:
Advances in manufacturing have led to unmatched capabilities in construction speed, materials usage, and geometric flexibility. This is especially true for 3D printing technologies, which hold the potential to improve the sustainability and resilience of civil infrastructure. Although 3D printing has been successfully demonstrated at large scales, such as in building concrete houses and a steel pedestrian bridge, the technology is yet to be widely accepted by the civil engineering community. In this talk, we review the challenges that impede the acceptability of 3D printing technology and propose a path forward to facilitating its acceptance and deployment. We also investigate new technologies specifically enabled by 3D printing that have the potential to rethink how we approach structural resilience. These technologies include strategic functionalization of structural materials for real-time condition assessment and reconfigurable metamaterials for high-performance damping.
Dr. Laflamme is the Waldo. W. Wegner Professor in Civil Engineering and the Director of Research in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at Iowa State University, and holds a Courtesy Appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Structures and Materials from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011 and was awarded the Early Achievement in Research Award (2017) and the Mid-Career Achievement in Research Award (2022) by Iowa State University. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. Dr. Laflamme’s research yielded a textbook on Structural Motion Engineering, five U.S. patents, and more than 300 articles in the areas of Smart Structures and Systems, Structural Control, and Structural Health Monitoring. He is a member of various editorial boards, including Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Measurement Science and Technology, and Sensors.
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