June 17, 2021

2:00 PM (EST)
Session Ten: Processing Science: Automated Tape Placement and 3D Printing of Composite Materials

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Call for Medal of Excellence Nominations

UD-CCM is seeking nominations of individuals for the 2021 Medal of Excellence in Composite Materials.

Nomination packets are due by July 4th. Click Read More for details.

Seeking Applicants for

Research Associate II, Research Technician and Postdoctoral Researchers.
Click the link below for job descriptions and how to apply.

UD Engineering Faculty Award

Congratulations to UD Center For Composite Materials Assoc. Director, Mark Mirotznik on receiving UD Engineering "Faculty Award for Excellence in Research & Entrepreneurship" for his research impact & leadership creating new initiatives in #AdditiveManufacturing capabilities that are nationally recognized.

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.

Additive Manufacturing at UD-CCM

CCM Assoc. Director & ECE Prof. Mark Mirotznik and alum Soumitra Biswas devised a way to make a novel lens using additive manufacturing, a group of technologies designed to build #3D objects by laying down layer after layer of material.

36th Annual ASC Conference

Virtual Conference Dates:
September 19-21, 2021

Composites Ingenuity Taking on Challenges in Environment-Energy-Economy

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.

Watch SAMPE 2020 Virtual Awards Ceremony

UD-CCM team accepts Delmonte Award (9:20). Prof. Kun Fu, UD-CCM joint faculty of Mechanical Engineering and CCM-MSEG alumna Dr. Danning Zhang, accept the 2020 Young Professionals Emerging Leadership Award (23:14)

$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.