Engineering Stimuli-Responsive Material Solutions
Our Purpose
To safeguard and enhance the capabilities of our structural and human assets by designing stimuli-responsive materials coupled with novel interrogation, modeling, and analytical methods
We are the Active, Responsive, Multifunctional, and Ordered-materials Research (ARMOR) Laboratory at UC San Diego, led by Prof. Ken Loh. We conduct fundamental research, advance innovative ideas and technologies, and prototype new sensing and actuation systems. Our work spans the broad spectrum of technology readiness levels (TRL), with both civilian and military applications.
- Advanced manufacturing
- Bio-inspired material systems
- Composites and nanocomposites
- Damage characterization and structural health monitoring
- Human health and performance sensing
- Multifunctional materials
- Noncontact and nondestructive sensing
- Soft actuators and robotics
- Smart infrastructure materials
- Stimuli-responsive materials
- Tomographic algorithms and techniques
Our physical structures and human assets are susceptible to different types of degradation and damage that can adversely impact their performance. We are not only motivated to develop new technologies that can characterize or mitigate the onset of damage and offer effective countermeasures, but we also seek to enhance and augment their functionality, safety, and performance.
LATEST NEWS
March 3, 2020
Congratulations to Ms. Morgan Funderburk for passing her Senate Exam and advancing to Ph.D. candidacy!
February 3, 2020
Congratulations to Mr. Han-Joo Lee for passing his Senate Exam and advancing to Ph.D. candidacy!
November 21, 2019
The ARMOR Lab welcomes post-doctoral scholar Dr. Irene Zhao! This position is funded by ORISE and co-hosted with the DoD-VA Extremity Trauma and Amputation Center of Excellence (EACE). Dr. Zhao joins us from her previous post-doctoral fellowship at UT Austin. She received her Ph.D. from Johannes Kepler University (Linz, Austria).
October 25, 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Long Wang for successfully defending his thesis and finishing his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering! Dr. Wang will stay in UC San Diego and continue as a post-doctoral fellow, working with Prof. Michael Todd and in collaboration with our group. Congrats Long!
September 25, 2019
The ARMOR Lab welcomes new M.S. student Ms. Sijia Li!
September 11, 2019
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate, Long Wang, on winning the 12th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (Stanford, CA) Best Paper Award of the for his work on "Topological Design and Characterization of Piezoresistive Nanocomposites."
May 20, 2019
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate, Sumit Gupta, for being awarded the 2019 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship!
The ARMOR Lab is physically located in the UC San Diego, Structural and Materials Engineering (SME) Building, Lab 413.
Visitor parking is available in Gilman Parking Structure (5 min on foot to the SME Building). Note that construction is underway near the SME Building. Follow detour signs and exercise caution when near construction zones.
Contact Information for Prof. Ken Loh:
- E-mail (preferred contact method): kenloh@ucsd.edu
- Office: (858) 822-0431
- Fax: (858) 534-1310
- Office: SME 445E
- Mailing Address: UC San Diego, Structural Eng., 9500 Gilman Dr MC 0085, SME 445E, La Jolla, CA 92093-0085
