Moving towards sustainable economies with net-zero pollution and developing resilient infrastructures while mitigating the impact of natural disasters require drastical changes in designing new and advanced materials. New materials will need to bear more load with less materials and be programmable to be intelligent in order to sense, process the loading conditions and take actions. Enhancing the programmability and intelligence would allow the materials to maximise their performance, be responsive to the changes of surrounding environments, helping to reduce the waste and pollution throughout the lifetime of materials. Enhancing the degree of intelligence of materials also enables new developments of multi-scale smart systems in robotics and artificial intelligence, better emulating the intelligence of living species. Architected materials are a class of materials that are deliberately constructed by internally intricate structures at mesoscales to significantly reduce the weight and achieve properties and performance that are not accessible in naturally found materials. Engineering the internal meso-structures offers the materials designer new opportunities to program the material responses. There have been significant efforts in scientific communities in the past few years in enhancing the strength and programmability of architected materials. Therefore, we cordially invite academics, postdocs and PhD students to attend and discuss their findings and share new findings in developing programmable architected materials for intelligent systems, in particular in regards to:

• Mechanical metamaterials with ability to achieve new mechanical properties

• Encoding and Programming the mechanical information in materials and structures

• Materials that "sense", "think" and "take actions" in response to changes in loading conditions: integrating sensors, logical gates and actuating sources.

• Advanced manufacturing that able to realise the design of new architected materials

• Application of programmable materials to enable new advances in designing intelligent systems and structures.

Location: Imperial College London, Department of Materials, Royal School of Mines building - RSM G06, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ.

For virtual participation: Please use this MS Teams link.

Time: 9:30 26th October 2022 (UK time). Welcome + Coffee starts from 9am.

This symposium is free and open to anyone interested in architected materials. However, please follow the registration (below the programme) for updates on changes and follow-ups.

Programme

Keynote speakers:

Prof. Fabrizio Scarpa - University of Bristol. Website: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/fabrizio-scarpa

Detailed programme: