Materials I - Assignment and Readings

Materials Assignment I: Materials Selection and Composites - This is the first assignment for the Materials Section of the class. Due December 2, 2008. (**Don’t forget to add a link to your composite documentation as a comment to this post).

These are relevant readings that will help you understand the subject covered today:

Material Selection: Getting Started Tutorial - This document has some examples on how to use the material selection software. It will help you figure out the first part of the assignment.

Family Trees: Organizing Materials and Processes - This document is part of Michael Ashby’s book Materials: Engineering, Science, Processing and Design and explains the big picture of material and process selection.

Make Magazine: Working with Carbon Fiber - This will give you a more detailed explanation of how to make your own carbon fiber composites. You should read this before starting Part II of the assignment.

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Techniques for Design and Fabrication is course that focuses on the realistic challenges of designing and building with technology, as well as the basic theory underlying how such systems work. The intent is to provide students with practical skills in electronics, fabrication, mechatronics, and materials selection and production, and is tailored to the requirements of the work done at the Media Lab. Rather than focusing on the low level workings of the tools used, we will point out at practical concerns and underlying rationale that drive the implementation and production of working prototypes and demos.

Keywon Chung 12.01.08 / 9pm

Here is a quick documentation of my attempt at material selection using CES and molding a clothes hanger with carbon fiber. Thank you Marcelo, Wei, Skylar and John!

http://keywon.com/wiki/index.php?title=MAS962-01

Wei 12.01.08 / 11pm

Here is my carbon fiber assignment.

Many thanks to Marcelo, Keywon, Skylar, and John. It is a lot of fun working with you guys.

http://web.media.mit.edu/~saga/fiber.htm

mark watabe 12.01.08 / 11pm

carbon fiber origami!

http://mit.edu/mwatabe/www/crane6.html

micah 12.02.08 / 12am

some documentation and pictures for assignment one, working with carbon fiber.

http://www.awelicious.com/?page_id=92

Daniel 12.02.08 / 2am