{"id":3592,"date":"2020-08-27T02:41:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T02:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mae.ucf.edu\/cosmos\/index.php\/home-copy\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T00:30:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T04:30:57","slug":"home-copy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mae.ucf.edu\/cosmos\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3592\" class=\"elementor elementor-3592\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b1ace4e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b1ace4e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a0d2282\" data-id=\"a0d2282\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bdb0209 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"bdb0209\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-large\">Welcome to the COSMOS Lab at UCF !<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2408799 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2408799\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Our research is at the forefront of innovation in mechanics of materials, bio-inspired architectured solids, and metamaterials, origami materials, reactive solids for corrosion, and nonlinear dynamics. 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