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MALIBU, Calif., October 14, 2010—HRL Laboratories, LLC, announced today it is leading a university/industry team on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Structural Logic Program, which aims to find solutions to improve structural performance and mitigate damage to military vehicles and buildings caused by shock and vibration loads.
Capitalizing on its pioneering research in material science and structures, the HRL team will investigate a new design paradigm for structures and platforms that passively optimize their physical properties for a broad range of environmental loading conditions and applications.
“We will create a library of adaptive building blocks, or structural logic units (SLUs), that can be connected in various topologies to meet the program’s goals,” said HRL senior research engineer Dr. Christopher Henry. “We will also create a first-of-its-kind topology engine—an optimization tool that creates assembly design instructions for struts with programmed adaptive response.”
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HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, California (www.hrl.com) is a corporate research-and-development laboratory owned by The Boeing Company and General Motors specializing in research into sensors and materials, information and systems sciences, applied electromagnetics, and microelectronics. HRL provides custom research and development and performs additional R&D contract services for its LLC member companies, the U.S. government, and other commercial companies.