CCM 2021 Year in Review

We are proud of the UD-CCM's faculty, staff & students' perseverance despite the many challenges of 2021.

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UD-CCM Awarded $7.8M

Air Force Research Laboratory awards UD-CCM $7.8M to demonstrate manufacturing techniques of highly aligned short fiber, multi-functional and damage tolerant thermoset composites (TuFF) for low cost attritable aircraft components.

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CMEDE Capstone Student Video

Paul Samuel, Ph.D.M.E. student, presents a brief insight on his research with Center for Materials in Extreme Dynamic Environments.
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2021 Medal of Excellence Honorees

The 2021 Medal of Excellence awards ceremonies were held at IVW, Germany & ASC 36th Technical VIRTUAL Conference. To view the presentations, click Read More.

Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester visits UD-CCM

U.S. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester toured UD’s Composite Materials (UD-CCM), Applications Technology Transfer Laboratory, seeing where and how the world’s strongest short fiber composite (TuFF) was invented.

TuFF iWRAP for Rapid Pipeline Repair

internal Wound Rapid Automated Placement (iWRAP) system, delivers and places new high stiffness-strength composite multilayer feedstock inside existing legacy pipeline.

TuFF Technology is Taking Off

This core technology to revolutionize high-speed composites manufacturing to enable the flying taxis of the future, repair our nation’s infrastructure and improve manufacturing capabilities.

UD-CCM receives $2.7M NASA award

The collaborative xEMU spacesuit program will design, manufacture, and test composite components, as well as, develop impact and damage resistant lightweight composite designs and fabricate flight quality composite hardware for verification testing.

$13.6M received from Army Research Lab

Program to create new composite materials, processing & manufacturing methods and/or use existing materials & manufacturing methods in novel ways to achieve new levels of lightweight, affordable, durable & multi-functional composites

U.S. Dept. of Energy awards UD-CCM $2.5M

UD-CCM project “Circular Economy of Composites enabled by TUFF Technology” selected to tackle challenges in plastic waste - Bio-Optimized Technologies to keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills.

Additive Manufacturing at UD-CCM

Services for our Manufacturing and Composites Industry Partners: process development and optimization, materials development & characterization, mechanical & impact testing and product design & development.

Materials in Extreme Dynamic Environments Awards UD-CCM $1.9M for 2020-2021

NASA-ULI Awards UD-CCM $5.9M

Using newly developed TuFF material to address technology barriers in manufacturing of complex geometry composite parts for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and commercial air platforms, meeting aerospace performance at automotive-like production rates, and to transition technology to our industrial partner followed the US industrial by base.

UD-CCM wins $5.9M ARPA-e program

UD-CCM research teams have created the “TuFF internal WRAP for Rapid Pipeline Repair” (TuFF iWRAP) program, establishing a novel composite material feedstock and robotic placement process to fabricate stand-alone structural pipe within existing pipelines.

UD-CCM partners with Mikrosam

Great things happening in Automated Composite Manufacturing at the University of Delaware Center for Composite Materials! We’ve selected Mikrosam & their US representative Composite Automation LLC to deliver an integrated ATP machine for automatic placement of dry, thermoset and thermoplastic tape.

TuFF Material

World’s strongest short fiber composite material for metal replacement achieves aerospace properties, metal-like formability in zero-waste, fiber-to-parts pilot plant.