Research

Deployable & Reconfigurable Structures

Space Solar Power Project

Dynamics & Stability

Telescope Technologies

Constitutive Models & Damage

AAReST

AAReST Overview

Telescope Architecture

Ae105 Class Involvement

Collaborators & Facilities

Research Areas/Links

Team

Former Group Members

Former Visitors

PhD's

Resources

Contact & Visiting

Clean Room Procedures

Research

Deployable & Reconfigurable Structures

Space Solar Power Project

Dynamics & Stability

Telescope Technologies

Constitutive Models & Damage

AAReST

AAReST Overview

Telescope Architecture

Ae105 Class Involvement

Collaborators & Facilities

Research Areas/Links

Team

Former Group Members

Former Visitors

PhD's

Resources

Contact & Visiting

Clean Room Procedures

Research Pages
Multiscale Homogenization of Viscoelastic Unidirectional Composites
Compressive behavior of unidirectional carbon fiber reinforced silicone (CFRS)
Thin, Active Mirrors
Deployable Wideband UHF Antenna for Small Satellites
AAReST
Origami-Inspired Packaging for Deployable Space Membranes
Large Deformation of Balloon Structures
Design and Experimental Validation of Foldable Tubular Booms
Variable Geometry Decelerator Planetary Entry Vehicles
Deployment of Lobed Super-Pressure Balloons
In-Space Telescope Assembly Robotics (ISTAR)
Imperfection-Insensitive Axially Loaded Cylindrical Shells
Variable Geometry Decelerator Planetary Entry Vehicles
Folding of hyper-elastic fiber composites
Viscoelastic Behavior of Composite Deployable Structures
Spinning membrane structures
Sensing and Control of Active Primary Mirrors
Numerical modeling of membrane structures
Packaging and Deployment of Large-Area Structures
AAReST Students
Ae205 Students
SURF Students
High-Precision Deployable Masts
Foldable Optical Reflector
In-situ shape measurement of flexible structures
Deployment Dynamics of Thin shell Space Structures
Buckling Sensitivity of Open Section Thin Shell Structures
Reconfigurable Kirigami Surfaces
Size Effects of Defects in Composite Structures
Time Dependent Failure of Flexible Composite Structures
Failure Analysis of Coilable Shell Longerons
Spacecraft Dynamics and Trajectory Optimization
Packaging and Deployment of Solar Arrays and Antennas
Numerical Modelling of Thin Shells

Summer Students (SURF):

2012
Liana Braun
Zipeng (Hunter) Zhao
2013
Erin Evans
2014
Erin Evans
Eric Grohn
2016
Cormac ONeill

Professor Sergio Pellegrino , 1200 E. California Blvd., Mail Code 105-50, Pasadena, CA 91125, United States

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