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 →

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 →