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 →

Alex was honored to receive Global Star Award from Engineering Ceramics Division during the past International Conference & Exposition on Advanced Ceramics & Composites (ICACC) meeting, which took place virtually.

Tricia Revolinsky conducts graduate internship at NASA Langley this spring semester. Congrats!

Congratulations to CMM Students, Benjamin Laredo, Alana Zahn and Pushpa Jain for successfully defending their MS thesis this past semester. Ben worked on understanding of the mechanics of wrinkle formation during composite stitching, Alana worked on modeling failure behavior in… Continue Reading →

Virginia Space Grant Consortium awarded Von Clyde Jamora (PhD student) a graduate scholarship to work on process modeling of AFP composites. Congratulations to Von!

CMM group members, Siavash Sattar and Von Clyde Jamora won first and second places in the poster awards category at the Automotive Composites Conference and Exhibition (ACCE) held in September. Siavash and Von work on polymer composite materials, specifically on… Continue Reading →

Our recent study on micromechanical modeling of unidirectional, freeze casted porous ceramic under off-axis loading. The paper was recently published in Journal of the American Ceramic Society. Great job by Siavash Sattar and Rahul Kumar Jujjavarapu. Also, thanks to Sergii Kravchenko for… Continue Reading →

Our recent work on the residual deformation analysis in steered cylindrical shells using AFP was published in Composite Structures. The work was conducted by Von and we collaborated with Dr. Wu from NASA Langley. Von successfully completed his M.S. work… Continue Reading →