The TEAMER program aims to accelerate promising marine energy technologies by providing access to select U.S. testing facilities within its network The Alfond W2 Ocean Engineering Laboratory at the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center is an official TEAMER (Testing Expertise and Access for Marine Energy Research) facility. TEAMER is a three-year, $16 […]
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The 2019 most accessed article in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering is ‘Model Test of a 1:8-Scale Floating Wind Turbine Offshore in the Gulf of Maine’ authored by Anthony M. Viselli, Andrew J. Goupee, and Habib J. Dagher. This is the second year in a row that […]
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Bangor resident one of 34 nationwide recognized by U.S. DOT ORONO, Maine — Andrew Schanck of Bangor, a Ph.D. student in civil engineering at the University of Maine, was recognized with an Outstanding Student of the Year award by the U.S. Department of Transportation for his exceptional research efforts with the Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center […]
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January 2020 US PERSONS ONLY – CONTROLLED PROJECTS Immediate Openings for Engineers, Scientists and Technicians to Support Research and Development on the World’s Largest Thermoplastic 3D Printer The University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center located in Orono, Maine recently installed the world’s largest thermoplastic 3D printer. In the process, the Center set 3 […]
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Dr. Habib Dagher, Executive Director, Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was featured on Babbage, a weekly podcast on science and technology from The Economist. Hosted by Kenneth Cukier, Babbage focuses on innovations making the news and is published every Wednesday. The episode published on Wednesday, November 13 included in-depth coverage of 3D printing and its […]
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An article by PhD student Sunil Bhandari, titled Elasto-Plastic Finite Element Modeling of Short Carbon Fiber Reinforced 3D Printed Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene Composites, has been published on the website of the JOM journal by the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society. The article, which was coauthored by Doctors Roberto A. Lopez-Anido and Douglas Gardner, acts as […]
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An article by PhD student Sunil Bhandari, titled Enhancing the interlayer tensile strength of 3D printed short carbon fiber reinforced PETG and PLA composites via annealing, has been published on the website of the Additive Manufacturing journal by Elsevier. The article, which was also coauthored by Doctors Roberto A. Lopez-Anido and Douglas Gardner, acts as […]
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The University of Maine’s floating offshore wind technology demonstration project is one of two initiatives that have been awarded U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funding. The two projects will share up to a total of $10 million to conduct additional innovation development to reduce offshore wind energy impact and cost. The funding announcement was made […]
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More than 250 federal and state officials, business executives, University of Maine System leaders and community members were on hand to witness the UMaine Advanced Structures and Composites Center receive three Guinness World Records on Oct. 10 for the world’s largest prototype polymer 3D printer, largest solid 3D-printed object, and largest 3D-printed boat. The event […]
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Dr. Habib Dagher, Executive Director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center (UMaine Composites Center), was recognized as the 2019 Transportation Champion by the Maine Better Transportation Association (MBTA) during an award ceremony on Friday, October 4th in Freeport, Maine. The MBTA is the largest transportation organization in the state with 700 members. The […]
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