MOSS Lab
News – NSF CAREER Award
NSF Engineering: Class of 2015 Early Career Engineers to Watch NSF Engineering boosts 146 early-career researchers with awards totaling $73M @NSF @NSF_ENG Research towards smart needles & autonomous structures begins with a buried elastica #CAREER pic.twitter.com/wt4NLsn63l — Douglas Holmes (@dpholmes) March 25, 2015 BU College of Engineering News: Newest ME Faculty Member Receives NSF CAREER […]
NSF CAREER Award
NSF Award #1454153: CAREER: Understanding and Controlling the Deformation of Thin Rods within Soft and Fragile Matter (NSF Award) CMMI – Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation: Mechanics of Materials and Structures The lessons learned from this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program grant will provide the framework for the active navigation of thin rods […]
NSF Award: Snapping Shells
NSF Award #1435607: Snapping Shells: Coupling Geometry, Dynamics, and Materials to Harvest Energy through Instability (NSF Award) CMMI – Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation: Mechanics of Materials When a structure snaps to an alternate shape — like the inversion of an umbrella on a windy day — its structural and material integrity are […]
MOSS Lab moves to BU
The Soft Mechanical Structures laboratory from Virginia Tech’s Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics has relocated to Boston University. The new research lab will focus on the Mechanics of Slender Structures (MOSS), and will be housed in 730 Commonwealth Ave., Room 308. Prospective graduate and undergraduate students interested in the experimental analysis and analytical modeling […]