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 →

Our paper on composite sandwich repair using through-thickness reinforcement was recently published in Composite Structures. Manju and Aleric led the work on CMM group side, while Parimal with Dr. Kaipa contributed to the robotic side of the work.

Tricia Revolinsky (M.S. Program) and Chris Volle (M.S. Graduate) will conduct summer internships at NASA Langley focused on systems engineering and composite modeling. Congratulations!

Spring-2020 was very productive for the CMM group members. Five Master students defended their thesis and projects this semester, including: Chris Volle: A POST-IMPACT BEHAVIOR OF PLATELET-BASED COMPOSITES PRODUCED BY COMPRESSION MOLDING Aleric Sanders: THROUGH-THICKNESS REINFORCEMENT OF CARBON FIBER BASED… Continue Reading →