Advanced Structures & Composites Center

Windstorm Challenge helps Maine youth consider a future career in STEM fields. We are seeking individual or corporate contributions at the $100, $250, or $500 level to help provide programming, transportation scholarships, and event-day needs for Windstorm Challenge 2017. Donate today Windstorm Challenge 2017 is a high school STEM competition that engages students with floating offshore […]

The U.S. Department of Energy announced a new National Offshore Wind Strategy today aims to help facilitate 86 GW of offshore wind in the U.S. by 2050. The strategy document, available for download, credits the University of Maine in its role as one of three DOE Advanced Technology Demonstration Projects. The document also notes UMaine as having presented […]

Joshua D. Clapp, Andrew C. Young, William G. Davids, and Andrew J. Goupee have published an article in Thin-Walled Structures Vol 107. The paper’s title is: “Bending response of reinforced, inflated, tubular braided fabric structural members.” The paper is available for full view access at the following URL until October 14: http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Tbyux-8R8Nt-   Abstract: Reinforced, inflatable, braided […]

PhD Candidate Lu Wang received first place in the graduate poster competition at the Northeast Agriculture and Biological Engineering Conference held in Orono, Maine. The poster was titled: “Mechanical properties of PLA from Fused Deposition Modeling.” Lu Wang is pursuing his Ph.D. in Cellulose Nanofibril-Reinforced Plastics at the University of Maine under advisement of Dr. Douglas […]

A stainless steel kinetic sculpture has been installed outside the UMaine Advanced Structures and Composites Center. “Wave Cloud II” was created by award-winning American sculptor George Sherwood. This piece was commissioned through Maine Percent for Art, a program of the Maine Arts Commission, as part of the center’s recent Alfond W2 Ocean Engineering and Advanced […]

On Sunday, July 10, 2016, Tux Turkel of the Portland Press Herald published an article titled: “Risky choices paying off for UMaine’s wind project: using unconventional materials and real-world testing, a university-led consortium is poised to become a global leader in offshore turbines.” To read the full article, visit: http://www.pressherald.com/2016/07/10/umaine-offshore-wind-project-poised-to-take-off Gale-force winds and heavy rain […]

Dr. Habib Dagher, P.E., was recently featured by Maine Magazine in their article, “50 Mainers Charting the State’s Future.” From Maine Magazine: “‘Whether it is an iPhone or a Tesla car, we live in a knowledge-based economy where wealth is created through higher education, by new ideas and new products coming out of world-class laboratories,’ […]

Posted May 27, 2016 – For additional inquiries, contact: Dr. Habib Dagher, hd@maine.edu, (207) 581-2121.   VolturnUS is a transformational floating concrete hull technology developed by UMaine that reduces the cost of offshore wind and creates local jobs. New England Aqua Ventus I is a two × 6 MW turbine = 12 MW floating offshore wind […]