A workshop is organized in occasion of a new US-EU collaboration among Penn State University and Politecnico di Milano.

Profs. Mary Frecker and Lorraine Dowler at Penn State University are co-principal investigators of the NSF grant "LEAP HI: GOALI: Accelerating Design for Additive Manufacturing of Smart Multimaterial Devices" and Prof. Chiara Bisagni is principal investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant "NABUCCO - New Adaptive and BUCkling-driven Composite aerospace structures".

The two research groups are studying adaptive shape changing structures in two different contexts, additively manufactured medical devices and composite aerospace structures.

The collaboration includes also a study of diverse leadership in engineering teams.

AGENDA

9:30-9:40
Welcome and introduction to the workshop

9:40-10:00
Making compliant mechanisms smart: modeling and design optimization
Mary Frecker, Penn State

10:00-10:20
A systematic design and optimization approach for magneto-active elastomer unimorph actuator
Tan Pan, Penn State

10:20-10:40
Design and modeling of superelastic compliant mechanisms
Brianne Ashley Hargrove, Penn State

10:40-11:00
Can we use buckling to design adaptive composite wings?
Chiara Bisagni ↗, Politecnico di Milano

11:00-11:20
Buckling driven non-linear aeroelastic response
Francesco Toffol ↗, Politecnico di Milano

11:20-11:40
Break

11:40-12:00
Design of active camber wing devices for full-scale experimental testing
Alessandro De Gaspari ↗, Politecnico di Milano

12:00-12:20
Meshless methods for structures of arbitrary
geometry
Riccardo Vescovini ↗, Politecnico di Milano

12:20-12:40
Morphing composite structures based on corrugated and auxetic geometries
Alessandro Airoldi ↗, Politecnico di Milano

12:40-13:00
Sensing, actuation, self-healing: towards
multifunctional aerospace structures
Paolo Bettini ↗, Politecnico di Milano

13:00-13:30
Closing remarks

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26.05.2024