Purdue University School of Mechanical Engineering

Materials, Structures, Functionality

Our research in the Programmable Structures Lab focuses on the fundamental interaction between geometry, hierarchy and nonlinearity to design structural systems with intrinsic properties enabling adaptation, autonomy and environmental responsiveness.

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Dr. Arrieta delivered a talk at the GM Motorsports Charlotte Technical Center on the ongoing research at PS Lab and also discussed collaborations between General Motors and Purdue University.

 




Presentations at the 2025 Society of Engineering Science Annual Technical Meeting

Dr. Andres Arrieta, Dr. Juan Osorio, and Sneha Srikanth from PS Lab delivered presentations at the 2025 SES Annual Technical Meeting organized in Atlanta from 12-15 October. Dr. Arrieta's presentation was on "Embodying mechanical intelligence from multistability". Dr. Osorio gave a presentation titled "Finite-state mechanologic for embodied control in soft machines". Sneha Srikanth presented on "Programmable Resonance Using Multistable Mechanical Metastructures".

 


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