Graduate students in Moini’s lab have Recently won two poster awards during the spring convention of the American Concrete Institute in San Francisco in April 2023. 

A study led by graduate student Arjun Prihar won a third-place poster award while a peer lab memebr Krystal Delnoce won the first place. Prihar’s research (co-advised by Prof. Maria Garlock) has focused on understanding the fracture mechanics of sinusoidally architected designs of concrete materials using experiment and simulation. Delnoce’s research has focused on adapting a new fracture test method for 3D-printed materials by developing a notch within the toolpath. 

The recent research paper of the group attempts to undertstand fracture mechanics of additively manfuactured cementitous materials using laser, is led by the Shashank Gupta, a PhD student in the lab,  Shashank Gupta, the paper’s first author, emphasized that “this approach can help inform the material properties as researchers are working with industry to scale up concrete additive manufacturing processes for structural and nonstructural applications.” The work was recently featured in an article at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. You can find the link to the article here: https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2023/06/05/lasers-pave-way-bette…