Welcome to the Aerostructures and Materials Exploration Group at Mississippi State University. Our lab investigates mechanics, design, and experimental validation of advanced aerospace structures, including deployable composite systems, bioinspired structures, inflatable habitats, and multifunctional materials for extreme environments.
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Our mission is to engineer the next generation of resilient, multifunctional aerospace structures through cutting-edge research in experimental mechanics, materials science, and bioinspired systems; serving space exploration, aeronautics, and defense needs.
Research
Research
Deployable & Inflatable Space Structures for high-packaging-efficiency systems for space missions.
Bioinspired Aerospace Systems.
Multifunctional Composite Materials.
Structural scale test Capability development.
Custom-built Non-destructive Test Setup for Full-field Deformation and Damage Detection.
Multiphysics Based Structural Health Monitoring.
News & Highlights
News & Highlights
2026:
Steven will be presenting at ASME-SSDM 2026 to be held at Long Beach, California.
Steven, Jordan, Temitope, Eli, and Luke presented in Spring 2026 Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Three papers presented at AIAA SciTech 2026, Orlando, FL.
2025:
Steven Coltharp and Jordan Gillespie win BCoE Space Grant.
High-Throughput Testing of Polymers and Composites published in 'Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials', Springer.
Temitope Fasola wins Bagley College of Engineering Undergraduate Research Grant.
Steven Coltharp, Jordan Gillespie, Sammy Evans, Curt Carman, and Temitope Fasola receive space grant from BCoE.
Vivek Khare presented at AIAA SciTech Forum.
2024:
Invited talk at University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.
Invited talk at the University of Oklahoma, Norman.
Invited Talk at Missouri S&T, Rolla.
Vivek Khare presented at AIAA SciTech Forum.
2023:
Invited Talk at Mississippi State University.
DIC system development featured at SPIE, Long Beach, CA.
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