Sarat Babu

AWARDED VEIV ENGD
ROYAL COMMISSION FOR THE EXHIBITION OF 1851 INDUSTRIAL FELLOW

Sarat currently leads materials research with BREAD in collaboration with UCL via the Engineering Doctorate scheme setup by the EPSRC. He is looking at new variable materials and exploring their production, potential and design. This research has lead to pioneering work into a range of new products and he was recently awarded an industrial fellowship by the royal commission for the exhibition of 1851. Innovations in fabrication technologies and material engineering are developing new methods and levels of adaptability in the materials we apply to objects and structures. This project looks at understanding how to incorporate these advances into the holistic design and architectural process to fully exploit the advantages they present. Based on a proprietary process of manufacturing hybrid functionally graded materials developed by BREAD, the project is investigating this fabrication method with new models and design systems by which it can be applied to the real world

Primary Supervisor: Sean Hanna

Industry Sponsor: BREAD (The Bureau of Research Engineering Art & Design)

Intelligent Materials | Modeling Hybrid Materials