Composites Manufacturing 

Thick Composites Manufacturing

• Continuous Curing 
• Staged Curing 

Process Modeling and Monitoring

• Material Behavior 
• Residual Stresses and Warpage 
• Ultrasonic Cure Monitoring

Manufacturing and Testing of a Filament Wound Composite Bridge Superstructure

Process Defects

• Void Growth During Cure 
• Microcracking of Embedded Engine Coils 

Smart Materials

Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) Composites

Magnetostrictive Composites 

Self-Healing Composites

Flow Control with SMA microflaps

Corn-Reinforced Composites