Inverse design machine and making a designer impact-mitigating architectured isotropic structure

Abstract

An inverse design machine for making a manufactured article that includes a designer Impact-mitigating architectured isotropic structure includes: an input unit that receives a primary structure; a primary structure analyzer that receives the primary structure from the input unit and determines primary properties of the primary structure; a structure adjuster that receives the primary properties from the primary structure analyzer, receives impact-mitigating properties from a structural property manager, and produces the designer Impact-mitigating architectured isotropic structure from the impact-mitigating properties; and the structural property manager that provides the impact-mitigating properties to the structure adjuster.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . An inverse design machine for making a manufactured article that comprises a designer impact-mitigating architectured isotropic structure, the inverse design machine comprising:
 an input unit that receives a primary structure;   a primary structure analyzer in communication with the input unit and that receives the primary structure from the input unit and determines primary properties of the primary structure from the primary structure;   a structure adjuster in communication with the primary structure analyzer and that receives the primary properties from the primary structure analyzer, receives impact-mitigating properties from a structural property manager, and produces the designer impact-mitigating architectured isotropic structure for the manufactured article from the primary properties and the impact-mitigating properties; and   the structural property manager in communication with the structure adjuster and that provides the impact-mitigating properties to the structure adjuster.   
     
     
         2 . The inverse design machine of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 a primary designer in communication with the input unit and that produces the primary structure.   
     
     
         3 . The inverse design machine of  claim 1 , further comprising a manufacturing machine in communication with the structure adjuster of the inverse design machine and that receives the designer impact-mitigating architectured isotropic structure from the structure adjuster and produces the manufactured article comprising the designer impact-mitigating architectured isotropic structure from the inverse design machine. 
     
     
         4 . The inverse design machine of  claim 3 , wherein the manufacturing machine comprises a three-dimensional printer that three-dimensionally prints the manufactured article from the designer impact-mitigating architectured isotropic structure provided by the inverse design machine, and
 the manufactured article comprises a polymer printed by the manufacturing machine.   
     
     
         5 . The inverse design machine of  claim 1 , wherein the manufactured article comprises a disordered-network mechanical material that comprises bonds and nodes, and the primary structure provides a three-dimensional reticulated structure of nodes interconnected by bonds with interstitial spaces separating proximate nodes interconnected with bonds in the disordered-network mechanical material.