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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PhD Defense

Aman Thakkar
Thesis title: LEVERAGING MULTISTABILITY TO DESIGN RESPONSIVE, ADAPTIVE, AND INTELLIGENT MECHANICAL METAMATERIALS
We want to congratulate Aman Thakkar for successfully defending his PhD thesis "Leveraging Multistability to Design Responsive, Adaptive, and Intelligent Mechanical Metamaterials." Aman's work shows how multistable elements can be utilized to encode responsiveness and adaptability to realize intelligent mechanical metamaterials.

 


AFRL Regional Hub Network Award

Dr. Andres F. Arrieta and Dr. Rodney Trice from Purdue University and collaborators from AFRL, Canopy Aerospace Inc., and Stratolaunch LLC. have been awarded funding through the AFRL Regional Hub Network for their project “Multistable Structures Design Tool for Morphing Hypersonic Waveriders”.

 


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