Congratulations to Rahul Jujjavarapy and Manjukrishnka Suresh for their successful defense of Master’s Thesis. Rahul studied off-axis compressive behavior of ice-templated foams using experimental characterization and computational micromechanics, while Manju explored the benefits of using through-thickness reinforcement of composite sandwich… Continue Reading →

Dr. Kravchenko gave an invited presentation at the 43rd International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites. The presentation included the on-going work in the group on Computational Micromechanical Modeling of Compressive Behavior for Freeze-Casted Porous Ceramic.

The student lead seminar on Manufacturing of Advanced Materials completed the first semester of the NSF supported Scholarship in STEM field. Scholarship recipients gave presentations on different topics with focus on manufacturing, characterization and design of advanced materials. The summary… Continue Reading →

Dr. Kravchenko visited Johns Manville head quarters to give an invited seminar on supporting design and manufacturing of advanced composites and discussed possible collaborations.

With our collaborators from Case Western Reserve University we published a study on the role of cure rates in epoxies on fatigue behavior of glass fiber reinforced composites in Polymers

CMM Research group was awarded Jeffress Trust Awards Program in Interdisciplinary Research to study how computational modeling can be used to inform manufacturing of advanced hybrid composites.

Composites Summer Camp (CSC) was focused on design and manufacturing of advanced lightweight composite materials to enhance the future of aerospace. The camp included hands-on experience working in a research laboratory setting with ODU faculty and graduate students, as well… Continue Reading →

Published our findings on the effect of density and morphology on the mechanical properties in polymerized high internal phase emulsions in Soft Matter: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322779849_Modeling_Compressive_Behavior_of_Open-Cell_Polymerized_High_Internal_Phase_Emulsions_Effects_of_Density_and_Morphology

Published research findings on cure history dependent residual deformation in thermosetting composites with carbon fiber reinforcement. This research can allow reducing detrimental residual deformation and thermal stresses resulting from manufacturing cure cycles.

The thermal expansion behavior of polymer carbon nanotube (CNT) nanocomposites was investigated, and a micromechanical model was proposed to explain the highly nonlinear dependence of the coefficient of thermal expansion of the nanocomposite with CNT content for the CNT/polyimide nanocomposite…. Continue Reading →