| | | Dr Iestyn Jowers
~ Mechanical Properties of the Hat and Family ~
The engineering nature of Daniel Clarke's presentation dovetailed nicely with that of our next speaker, Iestyn Jowers. Here the focus remained on the practicalities of discovery through physical experimentation, but with a special focus on the Hat. This tile has the unusual feature of being amenable to a continuous deformation whilst still tessellating the plane aperiodically. This leads to the possibility of tuning the configuration to favour a particularly desirable mechanical property, possibly without compromising others. Much of Iestyn's talk and the beautiful diagrams presented can be found in the 2024 paper A Class of Aperiodic Honeycombs with Tuneable Mechanical Properties, co-authored with Richard Moat, Daniel Clarke, Francesca Carter and Dan Rust.
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