DESIGN, ASSEMBLY AND CHARACTERIZATION OF COMPOSITE ...

LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 2.1 Schematic illustration of the BT unit cell (shown with tetragonal symmetry)
demonstrating the offset B-site cation. ............................................................................... 6
Figure 2.2 A schematic illustration of the Poisson's ratio. .................................................. 8
Figure 2.3 Schematic illustrations of fabrication concept for local Ni structures. The dark
red, blue, and marine colored layers indicate the strata of fugitive support in the sequence
of printing, and the grey filaments are Ni. ........................................................................ 10
Figure 2.4 Schematic illustrations of a) a reentrant unit cell and b) a reentrant structure
composed of repeating unit cells in 3D. The yellow colored struts are BT, and blue
colored ones are Ni. The red lines indicate the 3D space these two structures occupy. ... 11
Figure 2.5 Schematic of the stereolithography process (Materialgeeza on wikipedia) .... 14
Figure 2.6 Schematic of the fused deposition modeling process (custompartnet.com) .... 15
Figure 2.7 Schematic of the selective laser sintering process (custompartnet.com) ........ 16
Figure 2.8 Schematic of the laser engineered net shaping (custompartnet.com) .............. 17
Figure 2.9 Schematic of the three dimensional printing (custompartnet.com) ................. 18
Figure 2.10 Schematic of the ink-jet printing (custompartnet.com) ................................. 19
Figure 2.11 Processing steps involved in Robocasting 31 .................................................. 23
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