Siavash published his study on studying structure-property relationship in nylon based long discontinuous compression molded glass fiber composites. You can find the paper here. Great job!

Virginia Rauch graduated with Masters of Science degree from CMM research group. Virginia worked on studying the mechanics of mechanics of preimpregnated fiber tow deposition and compaction.  Virginia joined Huntington Ingalls Industries. Congratulations on both!

Siavash Sattar (PhD candidate) receives 3rd Best Poster Award during Automotive Composites Conference and Exhibition in Nov. 2021 in Novi, Michigan. Congratulations!

​<span id=”__caret”>_</span>Composite Baja senior design team finished there design and manufacturing project on composite skid plate. The new design used carbon fiber weave and non-crimp fabric fabricated using vacuum assisted resin transfer molding (VARTM). The new skid plate resulted in… Continue Reading →

Tricia Revolinsky defends her Masters Thesis on POST-PROCESSING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED CARBON FIBER REINFORCED SEMI-CRYSTALLINE POLYMERS. Tricia investigated how composite microscopic and meso-scale features change during iso-static compaction (hot-pressing) along with crystallization behavior during isothermal annealing, which lead to… Continue Reading →

Congratulations to Richard Larson (PhD student) for receiving the best paper award at American Society for Composites for our conference paper on Understanding Variability in Mechanical Behavior of Adhesively Bonded Sandwich Joints Due to Stochastic Material Damage.  The work was… Continue Reading →

Yogaraja Sridhar defends his MS Thesis on The Effect of Through Thickness Reinforcement on Debonding Behavior of Skin/Stringer Configuration . Yogi joined Lansing Machine Services. Congratulations, Yogi!

Published paper on high-strain rate behavior of composites with AFP signature defects in Journal of Composite Materials.

The Senior Design team successfully created a carbon fiber seat that is 3.8 lbs and has a fabric volume fraction of 65% while also staying true to our Inventor model dimensions. We met our target goal of reducing the weight… Continue Reading →

We are glad to share that our recent study “An Experimental Investigation on Low-Velocity Impact Response and Compression After Impact of a Stochastic, Discontinuous Prepreg Tape Composite” was published in Composites Part A. We found drastically different failure patterns in… Continue Reading →