On May 24, 2019, Prof. Glaucio H. Paulino and his students from the Georgia Institute of Technology visited our laboratory and conducted a series of academic exchanges. Professor Paulino is the Raymond Allen Jones Chair at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His seminal contributions in the area of computational mechanics include the development of methodologies to characterize the deformation and fracture behavior of existing and emerging materials and structural systems; topology optimization for large-scale multiscale/multiphysics problems; and deployable structures and origami engineering. He is presently vice-President of the Society of Eng. Science (SES) and a member of the Board of Directors of EMI (Engineering Mechanics Institute).
        During this visit, Prof. Paulino and his students visited the lab and learned about the latest research. Then Prof. Paulino presented a vivid academic report named Origami Engineering. By studying an origami unit that can be transformed between different modes, the model can switch smoothly between negative and positive Poisson’s ratios.
        Subsequently, two of Prof. Paulino's students and two graduate students from MSL also presented their research contents：
        (1) PolyMat: An Efficient Matlab Code for Multi-Material Topology Optimization (Emily Sanders);
        (2) Universal Machine Learning for Topology Optimization (Heng Chi);
        (3) Mechanical Metamaterial Based on Square-twist Pattern (Shixi Zang);
        (4) One-DOF Rigid and Flat Foldable Origami Cubes (Yuanqing Gu).