Structures and Composites Laboratory

Integrating sensing, computing, and energy storage, the Stuctures and Composites Lab (SACL) is developing multi-functional energy storage composite materials (MESC) for future electric vehicles. SACL is part of the Aeronautics & Astronautics Department at Stanford University.

SACL group specializes in the areas of multi-functional materials and intelligent structures with particular emphases on structural health monitoring, intelligent self-sensing diagnostics, and multifunctional energy storage composites for transportation vehicles as well as safety-critical assets and medical devices. The group's specialties include embedded sensors and stretchable sensor networks with built-in self-diagnostics, integrated diagnostics and prognostics, damage tolerance and failure analysis for composite materials, and advanced multi-physics computational methods for multi-functional structures.