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Contract Research (CRO)Research & Engineering

Nonlinear Mechanics

By HRL Laboratories LLC

MML pioneers design, fabrication, and engineering of nonlinear mechanical elements at all length scales, such as negative-stiffness structures and lattice-based energy absorbers. We have developed new engineering laws for designing with these structures and enabling fundamentally new tunable components. These control shock, vibration, and dynamics from vehicle-sized down to microsystem scales. They also manage kinetic energy during single- and multi-hit impacts at minimum weight and volume.