Graduate Students: Interested in a Research Position?
CCM encourages graduate students who are interested in
research positions to contact CCM via the World Wide Web. NOTE: CCM
will keep any sent information confidential; however, it cannot guarantee,
nor is it responsible for, the security of information transmitted electronically.
Graduate students must apply to the academic department
or program in which they are interested (including but not limited to
the Departments of Civil & Environmental
Engineering, Chemical Engineering,
Electrical & Computer Engineering,
Materials Science & Engineering;
and Mechanical Engineering; the
Departments of Chemistry
& Biochemistry, Physics
& Astronomy, and Computer
& Information Sciences; and the College
of Business & Economics). It is recommended that interested
graduate students notify CCM by sending their resume as an e-mail attachment
to:
Corinne
Hamed
Staff Assistant
201 Composites Manufacturing Science Laboratory
Center for Composite Materials
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716-3144
phone: 302-831-1675
fax: 302-831-2074
Summer Internship
available at NAVAIR
( http://www.navair.navy.mil/ )
Abstract:
The overall objective of this project is to evaluate the manufacturing
capability (i.e. formability), processing characteristics, and final mechanical
properties of carbon fiber reinforced polymer matrix composites fabricated
from a promising new family of aligned, discontinuous fibers called Stretch
Broken Carbon Fiber or SBCF. SBCF is an improved aligned, discontinuous
carbon f iber system developed by Hexcel Corp. that holds promise for
decreasing the high costs associated with fabricating high performance,
aerospace PMC’s. The unique advantages of the material lie in its
combined properties of improved formability (relative to continuous fiber
reinforced precursor materials) without the large mechanical performance
knock-downs typical of discontinuous systems (i.e. random short fiber
composites). The initial focus is on evaluating the potential of SBCF
to extend the range of complex curvature parts that can be fabricated
through low cost, vacuum diaphragm composites forming. US
Citizenship required
Please email resume to: Dr. Dirk Heider at heider@ccm.udel.edu
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