Siavash continues his productive year with another paper on the notch sensitivity in long discontinuous fiber composites. The study found unique notch insensitivity in LDFC with improved damage tolerant plastic behavior prior to failure.

Dan published his work on investigating the effect of sustainable plant-based graphene on improving the mechanical properties of high performance carbon fiber thermosetting composites. The study focused on mechanical and thermo-electric properties. Great work!

Pushpa published her MS-thesis based study on the effect of secondary compaction on the mechanical behavior of nylon based short fiber 3D printed composites. She found really interesting results on the effect of high temperature compaction to improve the mechanical… Continue Reading →

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!