Printing to develop four-dimensional

Printing to develop four-dimensional

After the emergence of three-dimensional printers that allow print-outs of the three dimensions and spread-out to her, especially after the availability of some models at affordable prices to the average user, which can be invested in print many things such as dolls and alternative cutting tools for home, began to appear on the horizon features something new, namely printing Quartet dimensions.

Currently, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is working to develop what they call the Quartet-dimensional printing through the development of printers capable of producing three-dimensional models of vehicles from special materials characterized by their ability to change shape with the passage of time or after exposure to water or heat or light.

The developer of the new technology team captain Skaillar Tbets explains that his team is working on the design of materials able to switch when exposed to external energy, which allows changing the form of printed use stereo, adding that the material's ability to change its structure is what brought the fourth dimension to the tri-dimensional printing process.

To achieve this printing must use able to mix different materials and take advantage of programmable materials printer, where the use of such materials will allow, for example, for a person in the future purchase of a flat slab of a sale of the furniture stores, and take it to the house water workshops it to change its shape and turns into one of the pieces furnishings.

And semi-Tbets ability recoverable materials programmable to change the structure of what is happening wooden chip flat had been wet, it may wrap the edges and change shape, and differs from that change depending on the type of wood and place of exposure to water, while the material on which it runs, the team must be able to change the structure but is predictable to reach the final structure of the required printed using a printing technique Quartet of anthropomorphic dimensions.

And can take advantage of the new technology in printing a piece of industrial wood pre-programmed through a combination of layers of carefully constructed and a variety of thicknesses, are allowed to change the form of specific and deliberate manner once you add water.

The team developed the Massachusetts different materials programmable, non-wood, is also working on a fabric texture can change its shape to turn into a hat, for example, when exposed to rain drops, and other flexible materials like carbon fiber.

Printing tri-dimensional home

Normally used to print the dolls (Getty-archive)

Many benefits

The team of researchers working with advanced materials company "Carpetks" on floppy and new carbon fiber technology "Sa.xs 6", has been developed carbon fiber programmable so that change shape in different ways when exposed to external energy. And helps blend these fibers with other materials during printing on the induction of certain forms can be accessed when printed to water or heat the product or moisture exposure.

One of the main benefits of recoverable materials for programming ease industry things are able to move and interact with the surrounding environment without the complexity or the application of electronic activation of high cost to control the systems, which means that malfunctions objects print these materials will be rare, where these objects will not include complex structures and thus provide high reliability, according to Tbets.

Developer team leader of the new technique also confirmed the potential benefit in the areas of space and aviation, where she coordinates the famous aircraft industry company "Airbus" with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to benefit from the application of programmable materials in the company's aircraft. The Institute also works with industry furnishings company did not identify.

The need of programmable applications Quartet dimensional printing materials to several years to mature, so it must be tested by the government bodies responsible before the adoption and asked for the benefit of companies and research centers, or even the average user

Source: Portal Arab Technology News