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Welcome to the Cornell

Space Structures Laboratory!

We harness nonlinear mechanics to create more capable structures in space, and enable high societal impact applications.

Our Research

Structural instabilities

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In-space manufacturing and assembly

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Active structures

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News

February 13, 2023

New paper on structural instabilities!

Our work on "Experimentally probing the stability of thin-shell structures under pure bending" just got published in a special edition of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A! More details

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January 29, 2023

AIAA SciTech 2023

Prof. Royer presented our work on Electrostatically Actuated Thin-Shell Space Structures at AIAA SciTech 2023. Find the paper here.

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July 17, 2022

New paper out!

Our paper Probing the stability of thin-shell space structures under bending is out in the International Journal of Solids and Structures! We numerically "poke" a structure at multiple locations to understand how it is likely to buckle, and understand its complex stability near the theoretical buckling point. More details
 

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June 7, 2022

Join the team

We are looking for students to join the lab. If you are interested, don't hesitate to contact us (fabienr@cornell.edu). More details

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