Recent work in 3D printing has focused on tools and techniques to design deformation behaviors using mechanical structures such as joints and metamaterials. In this poster, we explore how to embed and control mechanical springs to create deformable 3D-printed objects. We propose an initial design space of 3D-printable spring-based structures to support a wide range of expressive behaviors, including stretch and compress, bend, twist, and ...

One of the key challenges facing the engineering design community is how to effectively measure the nebulous construct of design novelty. The community has adopted two vastly different approaches to solving this problem; a more quantitative approach that relies on feature-trees and a more subjective approach that uses human raters. The goal of this study was to identify a method for using human raters as a means of calibrating feature-tree ...

The discontinuous Galerkin (DG) approach has gained considerable attention as an efficient and accurate method for solving Maxwell’s equations in time-domain. Its ability to allow explicit time integration while offering a higher-order spatial discretization on unstructured meshes makes it a very attractive method for complex electromagnetic systems [1]. In order to match the accurate spatial discretization one typically also requires an ...

This is the beginning of Network Science. The journal has been created because network science is exploding. As is typical for a field in formation, the discussions about its scope, contents, and foundations are intense. On these first few pages of the first issue of our new journal, we would like to share our own vision of the emerging science of networks.