Shape-Changing Clay-Dough: Taking a Material-Oriented Approach to 3D Printing Ceramic Forms

• DOI: 10.1145/3613904.3642246
• Publication Date: 2024-05-11T08:38:25Z
• Authors: Fiona Bell; Erin Mcclure; Camila Friedman-G...; Ruby Ta; Leah Buechley
• Keywords: Shrinkage; Recipe

This paper presents clay-dough, a 3D printable ceramic material that is made from mixture of stoneware clay and biomaterial dough. While all clays shrink when they are fired at high temperatures, clay-dough enables more dramatic shrinkage due to the dough burning away. We developed three recipes different ratios clay-to-dough characterized properties each recipe; ultimately correlating shrinkage, density, strength, porosity amount in recipe. then leveraged clay-dough's our material-oriented approach create forms, where form dictated by pattern we load materials for printing. To exemplify this approach, built design space around basic cylindrical forms change shape during firing process into complex explored range non-cylindrical applications. Lastly, reflect on limitations opportunities material-centered research.