Toyota Programmable System Innovation Fellowship: Design of Active Materials & Structures Lab

Research Topic: Forward and Inverse Design of Programmable Surfaces from Active Knitted Textiles

• Established an additive manufacturing procedure to create shape memory alloy multi-functional structures

• Fabricated and processed Nitinol knitted textiles to understand 3D deformations and kinematic motions of the textile

• Implemented imaging techniques like digital image correlation for material characterization of SMA active textiles

• Developed a forward and an inverse design tool to predict Nitinol textile performance using a custom MATLAB model