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Prof. Evgueni Filipov and Group Member Hardik Patil teach a new class on “Introduction to Adaptable and Deployable Structures” (ENG 100)

Posted on January 1, 2023 (August 16, 2024) by Jacob Pavelka

The class was offered to first-year students where they worked on semester-long team projects including deployable sea walls, solar arrays, facades, bridges, and more. (Course

Group members Evgueni Filipov, Zhongyuan Wo, Yi Zhu, and Hardik Patil presented at the ASME’s International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) 2022.

Posted on November 1, 2022 (May 30, 2024) by Jacob Pavelka

Group member Zhongyuan Wo secured 1st place in NSF Student Poster Competition and Honorable Mention in the CONCAM Student Poster Competition at ASME’s IMECE 2022!

Posted on November 1, 2022 (August 16, 2024) by Jacob Pavelka

The title of the poster was Buckling-induced Functionalities in Origami Tubes. Congratulations, Wo!

Our new paper on “Harnessing Interpretable Machine Learning for Origami Inverse Design” is published on Scientific Reports.

Posted on November 1, 2022 (August 16, 2024) by Jacob Pavelka

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DRSL features in M-Live!

Posted on November 1, 2022 (May 30, 2024) by Jacob Pavelka

The article’s title is In an engineering lab at the University of Michigan, tiny robots, boats and bridges inspired by origami. Link.

Group member Zhongyuan Wo successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled “Harnessing Buckling to Create Functionality in Origami Tubes.”

Posted on October 1, 2022 (May 30, 2024) by Jacob Pavelka

Our Review Paper on Origami Simulation by Yi Zhu, Mark Schenk, and Evgueni T. Filipov is published in Applied Mechanics Review

Posted on August 1, 2022 (August 16, 2024) by Jacob Pavelka

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Welcome, Anan, Anvay, Guowei (Wayne), Jacob, and Kaley!

Posted on August 1, 2022 (August 16, 2024) by Jacob Pavelka

The following students have joined our group!

Anan (Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering)Anvay (Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering & Scientific Computing)Guowei (Ph.D. student in Civil Engineering)Jacob

Group member Steven R. Woodruff successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled “How Curved Creases Enhance the Stiffness and Enable Shape Morphing of Thin-Sheet Structures.”

Posted on June 1, 2022 (May 30, 2024) by Jacob Pavelka

The paper: Wo, Z., and Filipov, E.T. (2022) “Locking Zipper-coupled Origami Tubes for Deployable Energy Absorption” was published in the Journal of Mechanical Design.

Posted on May 1, 2022 (August 16, 2024) by Jacob Pavelka

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