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Multifunctional Material and Aerospace Structures Optimization Lab

Research website for the Hartl research team at Texas A&M

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About Us

The M2AESTRO Lab focuses on the development of novel aerospace material and structural concepts that provide multiphysical and multifunctional responses. Material systems of interest include shape memory alloys, liquid metals, high conductivity composites laminates, and others. Laboratory capabilities include a customizable 3’x4’ wind tunnel test section for acquisition of fully three-dimensional surface deformation, strain, and thermal fields as measured on adaptive aerospace structures in a flow environment. Integrated augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) environments allow experiential immersion into the complex data sets generated during such experiments and allow straightforward and intuitive comparison between computational mechanics results and laboratory test data.

 

Welcome to the Multifunctional Materials and Aerospace Structures Optimization (M2AESTRO) Lab, the research team of Dr. Darren J. Hartl. For more about what we do, please see our Overview Video


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