Flexible Structures Laboratory @ EPFL

@flexlab_epfl

Understanding the #ExtremeMechanics of slender structures. Brought to you from the Swiss Alps by Pedro Reis & his team. Since 2017 @EPFL_en

Lausanne, Switzerland flexlab.epfl.ch Joined March 2018

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Flexible Structures Laboratory @ EPFL @flexlab_epfl Jul 10, 2023

A team of postdocs from our Lab - Luna Lin, Michael Gomez & @FDerveni - supervised an exciting project-based engineering-design course for 14 of our MechE bachelor students @epfl_en, taking the sketches of Leonardo da Vinci as a starting point for ideation. More info here:👇

EPFL @EPFL_en Jul 4, 2023

[Students Projects] Fourteen students spent a semester getting inside the head of Leonardo da Vinci. Using his drawings from the 15th and 16th centuries, the teams built ingenious machines in order to better understand how they worked
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Flexible Structures Laboratory @ EPFL @flexlab_epfl Jun 9, 2023

It's annoying when your shoelaces become undone, but no big problem; just retie them. But what about surgical knots? What sets their strength? Why do surgeons take so long to learn how to tie safe knots? Check out our recent study science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… @EPFLEngineering @EPFL_en

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Flexible Structures Laboratory @ EPFL @flexlab_epfl May 26, 2023

📢 Postdoc Job Alert! Join us @EPFL_en, in gorgeous Lausanne, Switzerland. We are a curiosity-driven team exploring the wonderful mechanics of slender structures, focusing on experiments, together w/ theory and computation.
Deadline: July 1st. More info: recruiting.epfl.ch/Vacancies/2933…

Flexible Structures Laboratory @ EPFL @flexlab_epfl Nov 30, 2022

Today, we gathered in support of our Iranian friends, students, colleagues, and their families.

Flexible Structures Laboratory @ EPFL @flexlab_epfl Oct 21, 2022

Partially complete presidential table at the SES, past-present-future: Sharma (2015), Nguyen (2020), Reis (2021), Jiang (2022), Masud (2023), Kulkarni (2024)! Saif (2016), Siegmund (2017), Paulino (2018), Buehler (2019) must have been sitting at the wrong table. Credits: K. Dayal