Seminars & Events

CSE Community Seminar | September 27, 2024

Presenter Mahmoud Shaqfa, Postdoctoral Fellow, Van Rees Laboratory, MIT

Talk Title Mechanical applications for the spectral decomposition of the morphology of surfaces

Abstract

The hierarchical representation of open and closed surfaces through the spectral-based analysis is gaining significant momentum in the mechanical community. The potential applications range from multiresolution remeshing and particle reconstruction to microstructure generation, studying the fractal roughness of self-affine surfaces, contact mechanics, and the morphology of thin plates and shells. In this talk, I will discuss recent advances in the analysis and reconstruction of genus-0 open and closed surfaces. This will be followed by a brief introduction to my current work on using these spectral methods for shape-shifting plates and shells