Overview
Research at the Architected Intelligent Matter (A.I.M.) Laboratory aims to understand the interplay between geometry and mechanics to design material architectures that exhibit unprecedented capabilities. Utilizing a fundamental understanding of mechanics, geometry and material-based phenomena, we aim to control the physical characteristics and/or the shape of our meta-materials.
Shape morphing
Entanglement
Imperfection
3D Fabrication
While we are an experimental mechanics group, we realize that computational algorithms are an essential part in the understanding and rational design of complex structures. Our research pipeline largely follows the cyclic process shown above, we experimentally provide an understanding of the constituent material or structure. We then propose abstractions of these behaviors to enable us to conduct numerical simulations. With customized reduced-order models, we are able to rapidly converge at optimized solutions which we can then fabricate and test.