Meital Carmi

Graduate Student

mcarmi@caltech.edu

Meital joined the Space Structures Laboratory (SSL) in the summer of 2021. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from UC Santa Barbara in 2020, graduating Suma Cum Laude. In 2020, Meital received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF). She received her Master of Science in Space Engineering from Caltech in 2022. 

Currently, Meital is a Ph.D. candidate studying the buckling stability of thin-shell, deployable, composite space structures. Her research focusses on quantifying the geometric imperfections in the composite structures manufactured by the lab and their effect on the structures' buckling behavior. She is also studying the effect of varying the geometry of the structure used in the Caltech Space Solar Power Project (SSPP) on its stability, with the goal of improving the structure's buckling resistance. 

 Publications:

  • Carmi, M.O., and Pellegrino, S.,  "Manufacturing Imperfections of Open Cross-Section Deployable Thin-Shell Composite Structures," AIAA 2025 SciTech Forum, 2025, AIAA 2025-0189. Https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2025-0189

  • Carmi, M.O., Cooley, S. and Pellegrino, S., "Effects of Varying Geometric Design Parameters on the Stability of Deployable Thin-Shell Composite Space Structures," AIAA 2024 SciTech Forum, 2024, AIAA 2024-0606. Https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2024-0606