The project is located on Northern Arizona University's campus, in Flagstaff, Arizona
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Cross-Hatch:
This design uses an interwoven design technique where the two separate materials can act as one but are still completey differetn entities.
Lego Inspired:
This design is inspired by the Lego building block concept. The unique design displays one material froming a pattern that will allow the other material to connect together as one piece, like that of two Lego pieces.
Mathematical Gyroids:
This design uses a mthematical function to intertwine the two separate materials into one piece.
Layered Material:
This design keeps all the concepts very simple where each layer of the design has a different materialistic property. As one goes throuhg the thickenss of the design, the propertiy of the material will change slightly, providing a new variable that can be altered.
The final design is taken from the layered material concept. Rather than multiple different layers with all different characterisitc propoerties, the design is simplified to only two separate layers. This design is chosen as it is closely similar to the design of the media and intima of the human vasculature. Figure on the left is the final design, as the figure on the right is the design found in human vasculature.
From Left to Right:
Picture of the Rheometer.
Isaac and AP working hard in the lab.
Isaac, hard at work with data analysis.
Pieces of sand paper that will be attatched to the rheometer for the shear tests.