
Anti-exposure Garments for US Navy Aircrew
Multifunctional Material and Aerospace Structures Optimization Lab
Research website for the Hartl research team at Texas A&M

Anti-exposure Garments for US Navy Aircrew

Additive Manufacturing Analysis in Abaqus

Aircraft offset reflector antenna concept (left) evaluated using simcenter star-ccm+ (top right) and ansys hfss (bottom right) high-fidelity simulation tools.

BESO topology optimization iterations.
[Read more…] about Topology Optimization of SMA Superelastic Structures and Actuators

Polo Horse Wearing Protective Headgear
[Read more…] about High-Performance Protective Materials for Polo Horse Safety

Abaqus Model of Telescoping Wing (Top Right), FEA Results (Bottom Right), 3D Printed Model of Telescoping Wing from FEA (Left)

Design domain where the black lines are notional fiber paths and the contour indicates the unnormalized spatially varying fiber volume fraction. The inset square is a sampling of the design space that is mapped into the structural analysis of a composite flat plate.
[Read more…] about Modeling of Tow-Steered Composites Towards High-Speed Morphing Structures Design

Acoustic source map of rectangular cavity in 50 m/s flow at 15 kHz.
[Read more…] about Cavity Noise Reduction via Hybrid Structural Morphing

Concept illustration and experimental setup of the thermosyphon-based adaptive thermal control system, highlighting two-phase heat transport and SMA-actuated radiator behavior.
[Read more…] about Shape Memory Alloy Torque Tube-Based Thermosyphon for Passive Thermal Control

Thermal Desktop rendering of human thermal modeling components, including customizable model geometry (left), vascular system fluid model (center), and parametric cooling garment (right)