Sawako Kaijima

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a digital design and nonlinear simulation approach for additive manufacturing of soft lattices structures subject to large deformations and instabilities, for which applications in soft robotics, healthcare, personal protection, energy absorption, fashion and design are rapidly emerging.

TL;DR: In this article, a numerical framework was proposed to predict the mechanical behavior of knitted fabrics from their discrete structure at the fabric yarn level, utilizing the hierarchical multiscale method.

TL;DR: The digital design and manufacturing workflow is validated by designing, fabricating, and testing a series of structures that illustrate capabilities, show how it empowers the exploitation of new design freedom, and even challenges traditional design principles relating form, structure, and function.

TL;DR: In this article, a multi-scale modeling and simulation framework for the prediction of the nonlinear orthotropic mechanical behavior of single jersey knitted textiles and its experimental validation is presented, where yarns are modeled as nonlinear 3D beam elements and numerically discretized using an isogeometric collocation method, where a frictional contact formulation is used to model inter-yarn interactions.

TL;DR: A novel multi-touch interface for fast architectural sketching and massing of tall buildings that incorporates a family of multi- touch gestures, enabling one to quickly sketch the 2D contour of a base floor plan and extrude it to model a building with multi-floor structures.