It was a great honor to receive Future Technology Leader Award from Engineer’s Council earlier this year in West Palm Beach!

Our work on composite repair was highlighted in CompositesWorld review of the past ACCE meeting in Detroit. As the contributor wrote: “In the cool-but-not-yet-commercial category, Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Va., U.S.) presented new research (partially supported by the Jeffress Trust… Continue Reading →

Our paper with collaborators from Case-Western Reserve University was published in Polymer Engineering and Science. The presented a spray assisted welding process of thermoplastics using microwaves.

Paper presenting a fast-curing, completely biobased epoxy adhesive that exhibit lap shear strengths of above 20 MPa was published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering with collaborators from Case-Western Reserve University.

Manju and Aleric presented a poster on through-thickness repair and reinforcement work at Automotive Composites Conference and Exhibition in Novi, Michigan and Manju gives a great talk in the session on Bonding, Joining and Finishing. Overall, it was a great… Continue Reading →

Alex participated in Future Generation Symposium on Composite Materials in Shirahama, Japan and visited Kyoto University afterwards to discuss possible collaborative projects with colleagues.

Richard Larson (Ph.D. Program) and Benjamin Beltran Laredo (M.S. Program) will conduct summer internships at NASA Langley focused on composite modeling and characterization. Congratulations!

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 →