Advanced Structures & Composites Center (ASCC) is one of 20 winners of the Phase One prize of the DOE’s Wind Energy Technologies Office to boost recycling for a circular wind energy economy. When a wind blade can no longer be used– because of weathering, damage, or anything in between– the ASCC can shred it, recover […]
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Global Secure Shipping Inc. a spin-off company from the University of Maine Advanced Structures & Composites Center (ASCC), was awarded the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award from the Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce. The Old Town company is the globe’s sole producer of ISO-certified secure intermodal shipping containers. The one-of-a-kind shipping containers have six-sided intrusion detection, […]
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A publication by University of Maine Advanced Structures & Composites Center (ASCC) researchers Hathaithep Senkum, Peter V. Kelly, Ahmad A. L. Ahmad, Siamak Shams Es-haghi, and William M. Gramlich has been published in the journal RSC Applied Polymers. The article titled “Strengthening polylactic acid (PLA) composites with poly(methyl methacrylate)-functionalized cellulose nanofibrils created through grafting-through emulsion […]
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A publication by UMaine Advanced Structures & Composites Center (ASCC) researchers Justin Crouse & Douglas J. Gardner, in collaboration with Auburn University researchers Xueqi Wang, Brian Via, Tom Gallagher, & Yucheng Peng, Troy University researchers Pixiang Wang & Shaoyang Liu, and USDA-Forest Service Southern Research Station researcher, Thomas Elder, has been published in Polymer Composites. […]
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The University of Maine Advanced Structures & Composites Center was published in Textile World, Composites World, and Textile Value Chain for the acquisition of an Optima 3D shuttle loom for the advancements of textile research. The equipment was accepted by a team of ASCC engineers during the ITMA 2023 textiles conference. The 3D weaving system consists […]
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Compotech Inc., a spin-off from the ASCC, is a leading composite parts manufacturer and has been featured on the 2023 Inc. 5000, a list of U.S.-based private companies with the highest revenue growth from 2019 to 2022. Compotech is number 990 on the 2023 Inc. 5000 list based on its 599% 3-year growth. The company, […]
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An article by ASCC researchers James Gayton, William Davids, James Haller, Jordan Duffy, Cody Sheltra, Roberto Lopez-Anido, Habib Dagher and Justin Lapp was recently published in the Journal of Composite Materials. Titled, “Heating of thick continuous glass fiber reinforced thermoplastic plates via embedded metal mesh networks”, this research investigates an alternative method to heating continuous […]
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Lopez-Anido Featured as Keynote Speaker at XXVII JAIE Conference on Structural Engineering October 4, 2022 Orono, Maine — Dr. Roberto Lopez-Anido, Malcolm G. Long Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC) research lead at the University of Maine, was featured as a keynote speaker at the 27th Argentine Conference […]
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ASCC News ASCC Researchers present at European Conference on Composite Materials June 29, 2011 ORONO, Maine 𑁋 The University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center sent five researchers to Lausanne, Switzerland for the 20th European Conference on Composite Materials. ASCC researchers presented four papers in accordance with the “Composites Meets Sustainability” theme. A Multi-Scale […]
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Project Summary The Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC) of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers works with the Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC) at the University of Maine on a variety of projects. Task two focuses on using thermoplastic materials for the development of a stiffened panel system for use in load bearing […]
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