3D Print Addit Manuf. 2024 Jun 18;11(3):e1209-e1212. doi: 10.1089/3dp.2023.0010. eCollection 2024 Jun.

ABSTRACT

Numerical modeling of soft matter has the potential to enable exploration of the soft robotic field's next frontier: human/machine cooperative design. However, access to material models suitable for predicting the behavior of soft matter is limited, and analysts typically conduct their own mechanical characterization on every new material they work with. In this work we present detailed mechanical characterization of 14 3D-printable soft materials suitable for fabricating soft robots. To allow the extension of this work by other researchers, our test procedures, raw data, constitutive model coefficients, and code used for curve fitting is freely available at www.SoRoForge.com.

PMID:39359602 | PMC:PMC11442377 | DOI:10.1089/3dp.2023.0010