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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Presentation on Robotics at the Gordon Research Conference

Professor Arrieta presented at the Mechanical Engineering Department graduate seminar a talk titled “Embodied intelligence in reconfigurable structures from geometry & constraints”.

 




AIAA American Society for Composites Student Paper Award

Congrats to the authors: K. Boddapati, Juan C. Osorio, A. F. Arrieta for receiving the 2024 AIAA American Society for Composites Student Paper Award for the paper: On the loss of stability of bistable laminates due to clamping. AIAA SciTech Forum, Orlando, Florida, USA, January 7–12, 2024.
You can find the paper here: https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2024-1333

 


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