Announcements and News – Deployable and Reconfigurable Structures Laboratory

The paper: Patil, H.Y., Maki, K.J. and Filipov, E.T., (2024). Rapidly deployable hulls and on-demand tunable hydrodynamics with shape morphing curved crease origami was published in the Journal of Fluids and Structures

Posted on September 14, 2024 (October 11, 2024) by hardikyp

Figure depicting rapidly deployable hulls and on-demand tunable hydrodynamics with shape morphing curved crease origami

Four new members have joined DRSL. Welcome Giwan, Peng, Vaibhavi, and Raj!

Posted on August 26, 2024 (January 24, 2025) by Jacob Pavelka

Group members Giwan, Peng, Vaibhavi, and Raj

Giwan and Vaibhavi have just started their Ph.D. program, Raj is an incoming Postdoctoral Researcher, and Peng is a visiting student from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China Continue Reading

Group member Wayne Tu wins Elasticity Committee Best Student Paper Award at EMI/PMC 2024

Posted on June 3, 2024 (October 11, 2024) by Jacob Pavelka

Wayne was the co-winner of the Elasticity Committee Best Student Paper Award along with another competitor. This competition was held at the EMI/PMC 2024 Conferences, and Continue Reading

Group member Anan Ghrayeb Receives the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.

Posted on March 14, 2024 (October 11, 2024) by Jacob Pavelka

Congratulations, Anan! The full story

Group Members Anan and Yi Publish a paper in Small, titled “Mixed-Transducer Micro-Origami for Efficient Motion and Decoupled Sensing”

Posted on March 1, 2024 (January 24, 2025) by Jacob Pavelka

Cover of: “Mixed-Transducer Micro-Origami for Efficient Motion and Decoupled Sensing”

This new work explores the performance of a micro-origami system when three different types of transducers are used for actuation or sensing and also exhibits a Continue Reading