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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Best poster award at the 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Complex Active and Adaptive Material Systems

Juan Camilo Osorio Pinzon, a PhD student of PS Lab, presented two posters at the Gordon Research Conference on Complex Active and Adaptive Material Systems organized at Ventura, CA, USA on January 26-31, 2025. His first poster is titled "Embodying Control in Soft Multistable Grippers from Morphofunctional Co-design". His second poster on "Finite-state mechanologic from geometrical frustration in soft machines" won the GRC best poster award.

 




AIAA Scitech 2025

Gunes Kosterit, a PhD student of PS Lab, presented his conference paper titled "Programmable Stiffness Control Using Dome-Patterned Metastructures" at the AIAA SciTech conference organized at Orlando, FL, USA on January 6-10, 2025. He also presented the work of Michalaros Dimitrios on "Aeroelastic Response of Deployable Wing Stiffened With Origami Inclusions."

 


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