Materials having tunable properties, and related systems and methods
AssigneeHyperDamping, Inc.
InventorsCarsten BOERS, Ryan Lee HARNE, Jason Milton WHALEY
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Abstract
Materials, methods, and manufacture for controlled kinetic energy conversion are provided. In an aspect, a material may include a first section having a first set of voids and an associated first set of properties (e.g., mechanical, thermal), and a second section having a second set of voids and an associated second set of properties. The second set of properties of the second section may be configured to be selectively adjusting by at least partially filling one or more of the second set of voids with a substance. The substance may be configured to inhibit, prevent, or otherwise affect a desired deformation or collapse behavior of the material in response to a load.
Claims22
An article, comprising:
- a material including:
- a first section including a first set of voids;
- and
- a second section including a second set of voids, the second set of voids at least partially filled with a substance such that the second set of voids is inhibited from collapsing relative to the first set of voids,
- the first and second sections having different properties such that the first section deforms differently from the second section.
An article, comprising:
- a composite material including:
- a first material defining a set of voids;
- and
- a second material disposed in a first subset of voids such that the first subset of voids is inhibited from collapsing relative to a second subset of voids, the second material being different from the first material,
- the first subset of voids being distributed in a first layer of the material and the second subset of voids being distributed in a second layer of the material, such that the first and second layers of the material have different properties.
A method, comprising:
- forming a material including a set of voids;
- and
- selectively delivering a substance to a first subset of voids distributed in a first section of the material such that (1) the first subset of voids is inhibited from collapsing relative to a second subset of voids distributed in a second section of the material and (2) the first and second sections having different properties.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.