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ASCC’s founding executive director, Dr. Habib Dagher, featured in Reuters for floating offshore wind
The Reuters article outlines the dichotomy of floating offshore wind on the East and West Coasts of the United States. “Maine is taking a ‘deliberate’ approach to scaling up floating wind, said Professor Habib Dagher, executive director at the University of Maine. ‘We often call it the 1, 10, 100 plan. It includes putting a…
Article by ASCC researchers published on recyclability of large-scale 3D printed polymer composite precast concrete forms
An article by UMaine Advanced Structures & Composites Center (ASCC) researchers, Katie M. Schweizer, Sunil Bhandari, Robero A. Lopez-Anido, and Lu Wang was recently published at the 11th International Conference on Composites in Civil Engineering (CICE 2023) in Rio de Janerio, Brazil. The article titled “Recycling Large-Scale 3D Printed Polymer Composite Precast Concrete Forms”, offers…
Article by ASCC and NREL researchers published on scale-model testing of offshore wind turbines
An article by UMaine Advanced Structures & Composites Center (ASCC) researchers Matthew Fowler, Eben Lenfest, Anthony Viselli, Andrew Goupee, Richard Kimball, and Lu Wang, along with National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers, Roger Bergua, Daniel Zalkind, Alan Wright, and Amy Robertson, has been published in Materials. The article titled, “Wind/Wave Testing of a 1:70-Scale Performance-Matched…
Designed to address labor shortages and supply chain issues that are driving high costs and constricting the supply of affordable housing, BioHome3D is the first 3D-printed house made entirely with bio-based, recyclable materials
The American Floating Offshore Wind Technical Summit (AFloat) brings together industry, academia, academiarnment floating offshore wind experts from around the world to chart a course for floating offshore wind in the US.
ASCC BioHome3D featured in SME article
The UMaine Advanced Structures & Composites Center’s BioHome3D, the first 3D-printed house made entirely with bio-based materials, was featured in a SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers)…
DOE Supports UMaine Research with Federal Funding Program
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that they will support 14 clean-energy research projects across the country with $33 million in support. Funded through the…
UMaine’s Dr. Habib Dagher, Featured in NYT for Breakthrough in Floating Wind Turbine Technology
The New York Times highlights the pioneering work of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine, led by Dr. Habib Dagher, in…
BioHome3D Technology featured in IFJ
The Advanced Structures and Composites Center’s (ASCC) BioHome 3D was mentioned in an IFJ article outlining the industrial advantages to 3D printing. BioHome 3D is the…
ASCC technology featured in Aegir Insights
The ASCC’s founding executive director, Dr. Habib Dagher, and UMaine VolturnUS & VolturnUS+ Technologies were featured in Aegir Insights: Long-awaited gigascale US floating wind play weighs…
Article by Ameli and Landis on a corrosion condition rating database for steel bridges
ORONO, Maine – An article by University of Maine Structural Engineering P.h.D. candidate, Zahra Ameli and ASCC researcher and University of Maine Professor of Civil and…