Journal Papers
Reksowardojo, A. and Sychterz, A.C. Damage Localization Strategy in Beams Through Stiffness Modulation and Controlled Deformation, Journal of Engineering Mechanics (In review).
Capretta, E., Hummad, K., and Sychterz, A.C. Experimental and Analytical Stability of Thick Origami Panels for Deployable Anchors to Prevent Coastal Erosion, Structures (In review).
Paul, S. and Sychterz, A.C. Progressive damage detection in a tensegrity structure using Multi-Layered Randomized Architected Material. Structures, (In review)
Grunvogel, N., Mindermann, P., Baruah, A.C., Sychterz A.C., Gresser, G., and Bischoff, M. Development of methods for positioning fiber-optical (strain) sensors for structural evaluation of coreless filament wound fiber composite structures, (In preparation)
Aghelizadeh, P., Tang, Y., Sychterz, A.C., and Sneed, L. Review on vibration-based damage detection of vehicular bridges considering traffic effects, Journal of Structural Health Monitoring (In second review).
Rodgers, C., Rahman, A., Hajj, R., Halloran, K., Roseler, J., Schmidt, A., Sychterz, A.C., and Henschen, J. Case Study: A Near Peer Mentoring Framework for a CEE Curriculum, Journal of Civil Engineering Education (In second review).
20. Rodgers, C. Henschen, J, and Sychterz, A.C., Virtual Reality as a Vehicle for Education in the Domains of Building Systems and Construction Materials, Computers & Education: X Reality, (Accepted)
Conference Proceedings
Rodgers, C., Sychterz, A.C., and Henschen, J. Work in Progress: Developing a Virtual Reality Intervention Activity for Reinforced Concrete Design, American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition 2026, Charlotte, United States, 8p
Hummad, K. and Sychterz, A.C. Enhancing the Design of Deployable Anchors for Coastal Slope Stabilization Through Dynamic Relaxation, SMASIS 2025, St. Louis, United States, 2025, 4p.
Reksowardojo, A. and Sychterz, A.C. Controlled geometry changes as a strategy for active diagnosis of damage in discrete structures, ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute 2025, Irvine, United States, 2025, 4p.
Wang, Z. and Sychterz, A.C. An Adaptive Dynamic Relaxation method with First Kinematic Equilibrium: A Study on Error comparison and time efficiency, ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute 2025, Irvine, United States, 2025, 4p.
Paul, S. and Sychterz A.C. Predicting Tensile Behavior of Multi-Layered Randomized Architected Material (MLRAM) using Artificial Intelligence, ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute 2025, Irvine, United States, 2025, 4p.
Baruah, A.C. and Sychterz A.C. Damage Classification of Deployable Origami Structure Using Supervised Machine Learning, ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute 2025, Irvine, United States, 2025, 4p.
Capretta, E. and Sychterz, A.C. Experimental Data-Informed Computational Analysis of Installation Processes for Deployable Ground Anchors, ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute 2025, Irvine, United States, 2025, 4p.
Khan, A., Henschen, J., Sychterz, A.C., and Perry, L. Exploring Faculty Perspectives on Challenging Threshold Concepts in Structural Engineering, American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition 2025, Montreal, Canada, 8p.
Rodgers, C., Rahman, A., Sychterz, A.C., and Henschen, J. Case Study: Developing and Implementing VR Technology for Civil Engineering Education, American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition 2025, Montreal, Canada, 8p.
Capretta, E., Hummad, K., Rahman, S., Beemer, R., and Sychterz, A.C. Shear Plane Analysis of Deployable Anchors and Insights from X-ray Microtomography, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics, Nantes, France, 2025, 6p.
Capretta, E., Hummad, K., and Sychterz, A.C. Experimental and analytical stability of thick origami panels for deployable anchors to prevent coastal erosion, Proceedings of the Annual Stability Conference, 2025, Louisville USA, 2025, 8p.
Baruah, A.C. and Sychterz, A.C. Sensor placement for control of a meter-scale origami structure, Proceedings of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, 2024, Zurich, 2024 4p.
Capretta, E., Hummad, K., and Sychterz, A.C. Analytical and experimental testing for increased shear plane of deployable geosystems for coastal stabilization, Engineering Mechanics Institute conference 2024, Chicago, United States. 8p.
Baruah, A.C. and Sychterz, A.C. Optimizing sensor placement for characterization and control of a meter-scale origami pill-bug structure, Engineering Mechanics Institute conference 2024, Chicago, United States. 4p.
Paul, S. and Sychterz A.C. Non-linear modelling of multi-layered randomized architected material (MLRAM) under tensile loading for a tensegrity structure, Engineering Mechanics Institute conference 2024, Chicago, United States. 4p.
Sychterz, A.C. Stability of a deployable awns on a compliant steel geosystem for nonlinear soil-structure interaction, American Institute for Steel Construction NASCC 2024 Structural Stability Research Council, San Antonio, United States. 8p.
Sychterz, A.C. and Tucker, K. “Comparison of biologically inspired functionally graded deployable geosystems with experimental measurements” Proceedings of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Symposium, Melbourne, Australia, 2023, 1—10.
Sychterz, A.C. “Adaptive Aluminum Tensegrity Structure as a Bike Parking Canopy”, 5th International Conference on Structures & Architecture, Aalborg, 2022, 1–8.
Gathman, H and Sychterz, A.C. “Dynamic characterization and assembly methods of full-scale aluminum plate-based tensegrity structure”, Canadian Society of Civil Engineers Annual Conference 2022, Whistler, British Columbia.
Tucker, K and Sychterz, A.C. “Analyzing Geosystems with Deployable Compliant Mechanisms for Enhanced Tension Capacity”, Canadian Society of Civil Engineers Annual Conference 2022, Whistler, British Columbia.
Paul, S. and Sychterz, A.C. “Robustness of Multilayered Random-network Architected Material through Experimental Testing”, ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2022, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Torres, J.A. and Sychterz, A.C. “Virtual Reality as a Vehicle for Education in the Domains of Building Systems”, American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition 2022, Minneapolis, MN
Baruah A.C. and Sychterz A.C. ”Damage detection of cable-actuated origami structure using dynamic relaxation”, Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2022, Baltimore, Maryland.
Gathman, H and Sychterz A.C. “Full-scale plate-based tensegrity bike parking canopy”, Proceedings of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Symposium, Surrey, UK, 2021, 1—10.
Baruah, A.C. and Sychterz A.C. “Active control of 3D printed pill-bug inspired adaptive origami”, Proceedings of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Symposium, Surrey, UK, 2021, 1—10.
Paul, S. and Sychterz A.C. “Dynamic Characterization of an Adaptive Tensegrity-based Four-Module Roof Structure”, Proceedings of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Symposium, Surrey, UK, 2021, 1—10.
Sychterz, A.C. “Adaptive Aluminum Tensegrity Structure as a Bike Parking Canopy”, 5th International Conference on Structures & Architecture, Aalborg, 2022, 1–8.
Gathman, H and Sychterz A.C. “Full-scale plate-based tensegrity bike parking canopy”, Proceedings of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Symposium, Surrey, UK, 2021, 1—10.
Baruah, A.C. and Sychterz A.C. “Active control of 3D printed pill-bug inspired adaptive origami”, Proceedings of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Symposium, Surrey, UK, 2021, 1—10.
Paul, S. and Sychterz A.C. “Dynamic Characterization of an Adaptive Tensegrity-based Four-Module Roof Structure”, Proceedings of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Symposium, Surrey, UK, 2021, 1—10.
Gathman, H and Sychterz A.C. “Analysis of full-scale plate-based tensegrity structure using dynamic relaxation”, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Conference 2021, 1—9.
Baruah, A.C. and Sychterz A.C. “Pill-bug inspired adaptive origami tuned-mass dampers”, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Conference 2021, 1—8.
Paul, S. and Sychterz A.C. “A Computational Analysis for an Adaptive Tensegrity-based Four-Module Roof Structure”, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Conference 2021, 1—8.
Sychterz, A.C., Filipov. E., “Actuator optimization for adaptive origami structures”, 56th Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science, Washington University, St. Louis, 2019.
Sychterz, A.C. and Smith, I.F.C., “Element location and classification following damage of a near-full-scale deployable tensegrity structure”, International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures 60th Anniversary Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, 2019.
Sychterz, A.C. and Smith I.F.C., “Damage mitigation of a near-full-scale deployable tensegrity structure through behavior biomimetics”, ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) conference, Pasadena, California, 2019.
Sychterz A.C. and Smith, I.F.C., Path-finding for deployment and midspan connection of a tensegrity structure, Proceedings of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Symposium, Boston, United States, 2018.
Sychterz, A.C and Smith I.F.C., Dynamic effects of cable rupture in a tensegrity structure, Fourth conference on Smart Monitoring, Assessment and Rehabilitation of Civil Structures, Zürich, Switzerland, 2017, 1—8.
Sychterz, A.C. and Smith, I.F.C., Towards biomimetic actuation for a deployable structure, Proceedings of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, 2016, 1—9.
Sychterz, A.C. and Smith, I.F.C., Shape control for self-stress following deployment of a tensegrity footbridge, 24th International Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Engineering, Krakow, Poland, 2016, 1—11.
Sychterz, A.C., Dalil Safaei, S., and Smith, I.F.C., Friction modeling of a deployable tensegrity footbridge, Proceedings of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Symposium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2015, 1—11.
Sychterz, A.C., Narasimhan, S., and Walbridge, S., A study on modal characterization and dynamic analysis of two aluminium pedestrian bridges in Québec, INALCO 2013 Conference Proceedings Montreal, Canada, 2013.
Sychterz A.C., Sadhu, A., Narasimhan, S., and Walbridge, S., Results from Modal Testing of the Daigneault Creek Bridge, CSCE 2013 General Conference Proceedings, Montreal, Canada, 2013.
Invited Seminars
Sychterz, A.C. “Adaptive and deployable lightweight infrastructure”, University of California Los Angeles, January 16, 2024.
Sychterz, A.C. “Adaptive and deployable lightweight infrastructure”, University of Virginia, October 20, 2023.
Sychterz, A.C. “Adaptive and deployable lightweight infrastructure”, University of Melbourne, July 16, 2023.
Sychterz, A.C. “Adaptive and deployable lightweight infrastructure”, US Army Corps of Engineers ERDC, Vicksburg, MS, May 22, 2023.
Sychterz, A.C. “Adaptive and deployable lightweight infrastructure”, University of Texas at Austin, February 17, 2023.
Sychterz, A.C. “Adaptive and deployable lightweight infrastructure”, Tufts University, November 4, 2022.
Sychterz, A.C. “Adaptive building and geotechnical infrastructure systems”, University of Stuttgart “Week of Advancing Architecture, Engineering and Construction”, October 11, 2022.
Sychterz, A.C. “Adaptive and deployable lightweight infrastructure”, SOM, July 12, 2022.
Sychterz, A.C. “Adaptive building and geotechnical infrastructure systems”, Augmented Computational Design in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction, ETH Zurich, July 4, 2022.
Sychterz, A.C. “Adaptive and deployable lightweight infrastructure”, John Hopkins University, CEE seminar, April 28, 2022.
Sychterz, A.C. “Path-Planning for Large-Scale Shape-Changing Civil Structures”, University of Waterloo ArchEng seminar, April 14, 2022.
Sychterz, A.C., “Adaptive and deployable lightweight infrastructure”, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth civil seminar, December 10, 2021.
Sychterz, A.C., “Adaptive and deployable lightweight infrastructure”, University of Cambridge seminar, Cambridge, UK, November 15, 2021.
Sychterz, A.C., “Adaptive and deployable lightweight infrastructure”, Imperial College London structures seminar, London, UK, October 13, 2021.
Sychterz, A.C., “Harnessing unconventional and 3D printed materials for lightweight deployable infrastructure”, CEE Construction Materials seminar, Urbana, IL, March 10, 2021.
Sychterz, A.C., “Deployable lightweight structures”, Illinois Transportation and Highway Engineering Conference, Urbana, IL, March 4, 2021.
Sychterz, A.C., “Adaptive and deployable lightweight infrastructure”, Illinois Structural Engineering Conference 2021, Urbana, IL, February 19, 2021.
Sychterz, A.C., “Adaptive lightweight deployable structures as civil infrastructure”, Carnegie Mellon University, Advanced Infrastructure Systems group, February 12, 2021
Sychterz, A.C., “Adaptive deployable lightweight structures inspired from biology”, University of Waterloo, March 6, 2020.
Sychterz, A.C., “Adaptive deployable lightweight structures inspired from biology”, CEE595S Seminar Series, University of Illinois Urbana-Chamaign, February 3, 2020.
Sychterz, A.C., “Damage mitigation of large-scale adaptive structures using biologically-inspired behavior”, Wang research group, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA January 17, 2020.
Sychterz, A.C., “Damage mitigation and resilience of a large-scale deployable tensegrity structure using biologically-inspired behavior”, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, April 24, 2019.
Sychterz, A.C., “Damage mitigation and resilience of a large-scale deployable tensegrity structure using biologically-inspired behavior”, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, April 8, 2019.
Sychterz, A.C., “Industrialisation de la construction”, École de technologie supérieure, Montreal, Canada April 2, 2019.
Sychterz, A.C., “Damage mitigation and resilience of a large-scale deployable tensegrity structure using biologically-inspired behavior”, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, March 21, 2019.
Sychterz, A.C., “Damage mitigation and resilience of a large-scale deployable tensegrity structure using biologically-inspired behavior”, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, February 21, 2019.
Sychterz, A.C., “Damage mitigation and resilience of a large-scale deployable tensegrity structure using biologically-inspired behavior”, DSRL group seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, February 7, 2019.
Sychterz, A.C., “Damage mitigation and resilience of a large-scale deployable tensegrity structure using biologically-inspired behavior”, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, February 4, 2019.
Sychterz, A.C., “Damage mitigation and resilience of a large-scale deployable tensegrity structure using biologically-inspired behavior”, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, February 1, 2019.
Sychterz, A.C., “Damage mitigation and resilience of a large-scale deployable tensegrity structure using biologically-inspired behavior”, Wissenschaftlichen Kolloquim “Enterfen adaptiver Strukturen im Bauwesen”, Universität Stuttgart, July 13, 2018.