Kim Ulrich

Project

Material transitions in moving systems in nature in technology
If a materials system consisting of several material layers with different mechanical properties is deformed, stresses arise at the material interfaces, which may cause delamination of the layers. Structural and mechanical analyses of motile biological systems will be used to elaborate principles for improving the longevity of multilayer technical structures and to investigate their applicability.

First supervisor

Prof. Dr. Thomas Speck

Publications

• Weather-responsive adaptive shading through biobased and bioinspired hygromorphic 4D-printing*
  Cheng, T., Tahouni, Y., Sahin, E. S., Ulrich, K., Lajewski, S., Bonten, C., Wood, D., Rühe, J., Speck, T., & Menges, A. (2024). Weather-responsive adaptive shading through biobased and bioinspired hygromorphic 4D-printing. Nature Communications, 15(1), 10366. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-54808-8
• µCT imaging, cracking failure and blocking force measurements of cyclically actuated pine cone scales of Pinus jeffreyi*
  K. Ulrich, L. Genter, S. Schäfer, T. Masselter & Speck, T. (2024). µCT imaging, cracking failure and blocking force measurements of cyclically actuated pine cone scales of Pinus jeffreyi. In Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 19(4): 046009. [Special Issue on Bioinspired and Bio-based Living Materials Systems]. doi: 10.1088/1748-3190/ad475b
• 3D printed digital pneumatic logic for the control of soft robotic actuators*
  Conrad, S., Teichmann, J., Knorr, N., Bellin, D., Speck, T. & Tauber, F. J. (2024): 3D printed digital pneumatic logic for the control of soft robotic actuators. Science Robotics, 9: eadh4060. doi: 10.1126/scirobotics.adh4060