Current Research Projects

Developing a Low-Cost Ventilator for All

Product Development Methods for Medical Devices in Low-Resource Settings

breathe ventilator — Copyright: Joan Minder / ETH Zurich

4D Adaptive Shading

Design Heuristics for Additive Manufacturing

Design, Optimization, and Verification of Pneumatically Actuated Shape-Morphing Lattices

Cosima pneumatically actuated shape morphing lattices

Computational Design of Multi-Actuated 4D Printed Structures

4D Printed Machines

A Low-Cost Sustainable Design and Fabrication Process for Mortarless Compressed Earth Block Dwellings

Yu mortarless compressed earth block dwellings

Algorithmic Design of Architectured and Deployable Structures

Tino architectured and deployable structures

Computational Design of Thermally Activated 4D Printed Structures

Additional Information

CDfAM Summer School

is taking place on July 1st to July 5th, 2024 at ETH Zurich. For more information and application please visit the website of external pageIDEA League.

"Computational Design of 2D Lattice Structures Based on Crystallographic Symmetries"

Our research is published external pageonline in the Journal of Mechanical Design.

EDAC at Kangaroo goes Science

Please see the external pagevideo.

Collaboration with incon.ai

Please read the external pageLinkedin post.

Welcome to

Nicolas Hochuli who joins our group as doctoral student!

"Shape reconfiguring bistable structures using heat activated fibers"

Our research is published external pageonline in Engineering Structures.

New Announcement for Doctoral Position is online

Please see the announcement.

Congratulations to Yu Zhang on being selected as Spotlight Article author

The external pagepromoting article is published on the Linkedin page of the journal Developments in the Built Environment.

"A template design and automated parametric model for sustainable corbel dwellings with interlocking blocks"

Our new research is published external pageonline in Developments in the Built Environment.

"Computational design and fabrication of active 3D-printed multi-state structures for shape morphing"

Our new research is published external pageonline in Smart Materials and Structures.

"3D-printing textiles: multi-stage mechanical characterization of additively manufactured biaxial weaves"

Our new research is published external pageonline in Materials & Design

"EDAC participates in the annual “Schülerinnentag"

Please read the article published on ETH MAVT News.

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