Launch your engineering career with a UD-CCM summer internship. Email resume to rketuuri@udel.edu
Read Morefor a short course in Progressive Composite Damage Modeling in LS-DYNA. This one-day workshop on March 20, 2023 provides a comparison between available composite models in LS-DYNA for shell and solid elements, e.g., MAT2, MAT54, MAT59, & MAT162.
Read MoreJohn Tierney, Ph.D., lead inventor of the TuFF Technology spoke with WDEL.
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UD researchers tackle new task in making complex material more viable for building aircraft
Read Moreinternal Wound Rapid Automated Placement (iWRAP) system, delivers and places new high stiffness-strength composite multilayer feedstock inside existing legacy pipeline.
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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.
Read Moreare working together to develop components of the next-generation Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU) spacesuit.
Read MoreThe University of Delaware (UD) seeks exceptional candidates who are dynamic and visionary leaders for the position of Director of the Center for Composite Materials (CCM).
Read MoreCapstone Event Highlights Accomplishments in Materials by Design for Protective Materials
Jan 20, 2022
A founder of CCM in 1974, Prof. Tsu-Wei Chou’s pioneering approach of coupling mechanics with materials has played a key role in the advancement of composite materials in the last half century.
Congratulations Prof. Chou on receiving ASME’s highest honor.
Services for our Manufacturing and Composites Industry Partners: process development and optimization, materials development & characterization, mechanical & impact testing and product design & development.
Read MoreListen to our TuFF Material Q&A session with Taka Kubota & Steve Crimaldi at NASA’s IMAGINAVIATION event to learn how TuFF technology is inspiring, invigorating, and impacting the aviation community.
Read MorePaul 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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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.
Read MoreProgram 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
Read MoreUD-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.
Read MoreGreat 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.
Read MoreWorld’s strongest short fiber composite material for metal replacement achieves aerospace properties, metal-like formability in zero-waste, fiber-to-parts pilot plant.
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