Advanced Structures & Composites Center

“Maine’s abundant natural resources have supported various manufacturing industries over the years, most notably the paper industry. But the paper industry doesn’t have the economic impact it once did and people have been talking about other industries that would create jobs in communities like Millinocket, East Millinocket, Bucksport and Lincoln, all of which have lost […]

Dr. Juana Doménech Subirán has joined the UMaine Composites Center for the summer from La Rioja, Spain. She holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering from University of País Vasco. Subirán’s current research interest is centered around passive houses, which is a building standard that reduces energy consumption. Passive house standards aim to reduce energy consumption by 60-80% through improved materials and […]

The University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center has received a $497,965 award from the National Institutes of Standards and Technology for mapping technical manufacturing challenges in structural thermoplastic materials. UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, in collaboration with Celanese Corporation, Eastman Chemical Company, Polystrand and Royal TenCate, will launch CMIST — the Consortium […]

Several undergraduate student employees at the UMaine Composites Center are presenting their senior capstone projects in Mechanical Engineering today at Crosby Lab. Each capstone team, under the direction of Michael “Mick” Peterson Jr., Ph.D., Professor, has created a website detailing their capstone project. Congratulations to Professor Peterson and all of the participating Mechanical Engineering students. […]

The UMaine Composites Center has been awarded $351,092 by the Maine Technology Institute through the Maine Technology Asset Fund to add two additional pieces of equipment to the W2 Wind-Wave Basin, currently under construction. The equipment, an automated tow carriage and a floating floor to create variable water depths, will enhance model testing capabilities of Maine-based technologies in the boat building, […]

Josh Clapp recently presented a paper titled, “Structural Response of Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator Braided Tube Components and Elements” at the 23rd Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Technology Conference in Daytona Beach, Florida. The abstract reads: “Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerators are currently of interest to NASA because they are potentially an enabling technology for new opportunities in space […]

A paper by UMaine Composites Center researchers Andrew C. Young, Dr. Habib J. Dagher, Dr. Anthony M. Viselli, Dr. Andrew J. Goupee, and Steve Hettick of Ershigs, Inc., has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. The paper was part of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 2014 33rd International […]

Andrew Young, a graduate student at the UMaine Composites Center, won 2nd place in the 2015 Grad Expo Physical Sciences & Technology Poster Competition for his poster titled: “Behavior and Optimization of Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator Devices for Spacecraft Re-Entry,” April 2015.

A paper co-authored by UMaine Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and UMaine Composites Center faculty member Dr. Eric Landis, P.E., was published in the 111th volume of the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences. The abstract of the paper, titled “Mechanical resilience and cementitious processes in Imperial Roman architectural mortar,” follows: The pyroclastic aggregate concrete of Trajan’s Markets (110 […]