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Professor Sergio Pellegrino's research focuses on lightweight structures, particularly problems involving packaging, deployment, shape control, and stability. He is affiliated with the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology. He has held various prestigious roles, including Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Co-Director of the Space-Based Solar Power Project. His work includes extensive studies in structural mechanics, novel concepts for deployable adaptive space structures, and the analysis of ultra-thin composite materials. He emphasizes the importance of verification studies of analysis models and the behavior of bistable and multistable structures over time, exploring constitutive models and failure mechanisms as part of his research. His teaching involves courses related to mechanics of structures and spacecraft engineering.
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