Composites Update
October 2020
| Oct. 19 2020 | U.S. Dept. of Energy awards UD-CCM $2.5M U.S. Department of Energy awarded the University of Delaware Center for Composite Materials $2.5M to tackle challenges in plastic waste – Bio-Optimized Technologies to keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills. Click here to learn more. |
| Oct. 15, 2020 | UD-CCM receives $2.7M NASA award The University of Delaware Center for Composite Materials has been awarded a $2.7M NASA contract for design, manufacturing, testing, and delivery of composite components for the xEMU spacesuit program. The collaborative program will develop impact and damage resistant lightweight composite designs, develop manufacturing procedures, and fabricate flight quality composite hardware for verification testing. Click here to learn more. |
September 2020
| Sept. 28, 2020 | Materials in Extreme Dynamic Environments Awards UD-CCM $1.9M for 2020-2021 Materials in Extreme Dynamic Environments (MEDE) Awards UD-CCM $1.9M for 2020-2021 Click here to learn more. |
| Sept. 23, 2020 | NASA-ULI Awards UD-CCM $5.9M Using newly developed TuFF material, NASA-ULI Awards UD-CCM $5.9M 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. |
August 2020
| Aug. 12 2020 | UD-CCM’s TuFF Team receives 2020 Delmonte Award for Innovation Excellence UD-CCM’s TuFF Team receives 2020 Delmonte Award for Innovation Excellence in the field of materials and processes. Award will be virtually presented to Dr.’s Jack Gillespie, Dirk Heider, Shridhar Yarlagadda, John Tierney, Nicholas Shevchenko and Mr. Alex Vanarelli on Nov. 15. Click here to learn more. |
| Aug. 7, 2020 | UD-CCM wins $5.9M ARPA-E Program University of Delaware Center for Composite Materials wins $5.9M ARPA-e program on robotic repair of gas pipelines using #TuFF i-Wrap technology. Research team has 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. Click here to learn more. |
