focuses on understanding mechanics of architected resilient infrastructure materials and structures inspired by nature and enabled by advanced manufacturing processes.
Lab News

Moini Lab receives Collab. NSF support
On additive manufacturing of concrete, aiming at understanding the spatio-temporal aspects, and fracture and transport behaviors.

Moini Lab receives Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund
AM2 Lab, in collaboration with Profs. Emily Davidson and Sujit Datta, will work on new functional water-absorbing concrete for flood mitigation.

Nadia Ralston has joins AM2 Lab as an Undergraduate
Nadia joined the lab as a Civil and Env. Engineering undergraduate researcher.

Dr. Lara Tomholt has joins AM2 Lab Distinguished Post-doc
Dr. Tomholt has joined AM2 as Andlinger Center Distinguished post-doctoral fellow.
Selected Publications

Continuous wave laser grooving of cementitious materials
Applied Physics A

Early-age buildability-rheological properties relationship in additively manufactured cement paste hollow cylinders
Cement and Concrete Composites
Lab Overview
The world's growing population and climate change assert the need for scientific advancements for design and manufacturing of resilient and ecologically viable infrastructure.
The Architected Materials and Additive Manufacturing (AM2) Lab at Princeton University is a multi-disciplined research group addressing the need for better civil infrastructure. The group is motivated by intellectual challenges involved in addressing civil infrastructure problems. The main focus of our group centers on understanding and controlling the fracture mechanics of new bio-inspired and architected infrastructure materials such as concrete. We advance the automated robotic manufacturing processes such as that leverage new possibilities in design of new functional materials. We emphasize on holistically improving fundamental mechanical and functional (thermal, water uptake) properties of brittle and quasi-brittle cementitious materials by design and processing, and develop ways to reduce materials use that can be scaled up toward resilient applications in the civil engineering.
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