Proceedings of the American Society for Composites 2015 – Thirtieth Technical Conference on Composite Materials

CRASHWORTHINESS

• A Shell-Beam Modeling Method for Crash Simulation of Thin-Walled Composite Tubes

DANGHE SHI and XINRAN XIAO

• Characteristics of Thermoplastic Composite Tube Under Axial Loading

SIMONETTA BORIA, ALESSANDRO SCATTINA and GIOVANNI BELINGARDI

• Axial Crush and Bending Collapse Analysis of Non-Crimped Fabric Composite Structures

VENKAT AITHARAJU, SATVIR AASHAT, HAMID KIA, ARUNKUMAR SATYANARAYANA and PHILIP BOGERT

DAMAGE MODELING I

• Comparative Composite Fatigue Damage Models for Life Prediction of Laminated Composite Structures

EUGENE FANG, XIAODONG CUI and JIM LUA

• A Fatigue Damage Model for Failure Analysis of Single-lap Multi-bolt Joints

CHI HOU, YINHUA ZHOU, XIAOPENG WAN and MEIYING ZHAO

• Closed-form Solutions for Cohesive Zone Modeling

JIAWEN XIE, ANTHONY M. WAAS and MOSTAFA RASSAIAN

IMPACT & DYNAMIC RESPONSES I

• Hypervelocity Impacts of Shear Thickening Fluid Imbibed Metallic Foam Core Sandwich Panels

JUSTIN WARREN, KALYAN RAJ KOTA, STEPHEN M. WESTBERG, THOMAS LACY, SANTANU KUNDU, HOSSEIN TOGHIANI and CHARLES U. PITTMAN, JR.

• Impact Testing and Simulation of a Sinusoid Foam Sandwich Energy Absorber

KAREN E. JACKSON, EDWIN L. FASANELLA and JUSTIN D. LITTELL

• Internal Impact Damage to Lightweight Composite Sandwich Panels

HYONNY KIM, KONSTANTINOS ANAGNOSTOPOULOS, MONICA CHAN and SEAN LUONG

MULTIFUNCTIONAL COMPOSITES I

• Autonomic Cooling of Composites Using Transpiration

ANTHONY M. COPPOLA, NANCY R. SOTTOS and SCOTT R. WHITE

• Nonlinear Deformations of Smart Plates Under Electro-Mechanical Actuations

VAHID TAJEDDINI and ANASTASIA MULIANA

NANOCOMPOSITES I

• Effect of Nanoclay Addition on Fatigue Behavior of Glass/Epoxy Tapered Laminates

M. SAMEH HELMY and SUONG V. HOA

• Environmental Degradation of Nano Enhanced Polymers in Low Earth Orbit

MOHAMMED JARADAT, XIAOBING LI, AHMED AL-OSTAZ, HUNAIN ALKHATEB and ALEXANDER CHENG

• Carbon Based Hybrid Nanostructures for High Performance Composites: The Surfactant Investigation

VIVIANE MUNHOZ, ALINE OLIVEIRA, ELVIS MONTEIRO and ANTONIO ÁVILA

TEMPERATURE EFFECT I

• Thermal Evaluation of Epoxy Resin Using n-hexadecane Based Shape Stabilized PCM for Energy Saving in Building

SU-GWANG JEONG and SUMIN KIM

• High Temperature Nanocharacterization of Al/SiC Laminated Composite

ANAHITA EMAMI, AYOUB YARI BOROUJENI and MARWAN AL-HAIK

• Manufacturing Process Induced Effects on the Strength of Carbon Fiber-Epoxy Composites

MARIANNA MAIARU, ROYAN J. D’MELLO and ANTHONY M. WAAS

WIND ENERGY

• Failure Modes and Strength of Composite Box Beam Structures

BILL COLE, AKIRA MIYASE, TUNG-PEI YU, KING HIM LO and SU SU WANG

• Fatigue Life Prediction in Composite Wind Turbine Blades: Effects of Variable Wind Load and Non-proportional Multi-axial Stress States

WEIFEI HU, OLESYA I. ZHUPANSKA, K. K. CHOI and JAMES H. J. BUCHHOLZ

• Lightning-Strike-Induced Heat Transfer in Glass Fiber Polymer Matrix Composite Blades

YEQING WANG and OLESYA I. ZHUPANSKA

CYTEC STUDENT PAPERS

• Thermoforming Process Optimization for Reduction of Inter-Ply Friction of Out-of-Autoclave Material

HARINDERPAL SINGH GREWAL and MEHDI HOJJATI

• Residual Cure Stress Buildup in Thermosetting Composite: Modeling and Experimental Validation

OLEKSANDR G. KRAVCHENKO, SERGII G. KRAVCHENKO and R. BYRON PIPES

• A Novel Through-Thickness Reinforcement Method of Cured Composites

SERGII G. KRAVCHENKO, OLEKSANDR G. KRAVCHENKO and R. BYRON PIPES

• Polymer Derived In-Situ Nano Metal Matrix Composites Obtained by Friction Stir Processing

P. AJAY KUMAR, RISHI RAJ and SATISH V. KAILAS

DAMAGE MODELING II

• Progressive Composite Damage Modeling in LS-DYNA Using MAT162: Part A—Properties and Parameters

BAZLE Z. (GAMA) HAQUE and JOHN W. GILLESPIE JR.

• Progressive Composite Damage Modeling in LS-DYNA Using MAT162: Part B—Model Validating Experiments

BAZLE Z. (GAMA) HAQUE and JOHN W. GILLESPIE JR.

• Simulating the Mixed-Mode Progressive Delamination in Composite Laminates

ZHENYUAN GAO, LIANG ZHANG and WENBIN YU

DESIGN & MANUFACTURING

• Top Down Design Using Bayesian Network Classifiers for Composite Panels

KAYLA VON HAGEL, SHREYAS JOGLEKAR, SCOTT FERGUSON and MARK PANKOW

• Modeling to Predict Micro-scale Permeability for Fiber Reinforcement in Liquid Composite Molding

TIMOTHY LUCHINI, STEPHEN SOMMERLOT and ALFRED LOOS

• Manufacturing of Carbon/Epoxy IsoBeam Lattice Structures

BRANDON ASAY and DAVID W. JENSEN

• Development of Stitched Composite Structure for Advanced Aircraft

DAWN JEGLEY, ADAM PRZEKOP, MARSHALL ROUSE, ANDREW LOVEJOY, ALEX VELICKI, KIM LINTON, HSI-YUNG WU, JAIME BARAJA, PATRICK THRASH and KRISHNA HOFFMAN

IMPACT & DYNAMIC RESPONSES II

• Impact-induced Damage in Tri-axially Woven Composites

COREY ANDERSON and DAHSIN LIU

• Incorporation of Plasticity and Damage Into an Orthotropic Three-Dimensional Model with Tabulated Input Suitable for Use in Composite Impact Problems

ROBERT K. GOLDBERG, KELLY S. CARNEY, PAUL DUBOIS, CANIO HOFFARTH, SUBRAMANIAM RAJAN and GUNTHER BLANKENHORN

• Characterizing Composites at Low Strain Rates

DAHSIN LIU, JIANXIAO ZHENG, DAN SCHLEH and GUOJING LI

• Impact Crush Modeling of Chopped Fiber Reinforced Polymers

SABER DORMOHAMMADI, FRANK ABDI, RAGHURAM MANDAPATI, HARSH K. BAID, MIKE LEE and UMESH GANDHI

MULTIFUNCTIONAL COMPOSITES II

• Hysteresis and Time-Dependent Effects on the Coupled Mechanical Electrical Response of Unconstrained Carbon Nanotube Yarns Subjected to Uniaxial Tensile Loading

BAJAR, J. ANIKE and J. L. ABOT

• Structural and Conductive Adhesives Enabled by Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

BEHNAM ASHRAFI, MICHAEL B. JAKUBINEK, YADIENKA MARTINEZ-RUBI, YUNFA ZHANG, CHRISTOPHER T. KINGSTON, ANDREW JOHNSTON and BENOIT SIMARD

• Development and Implementation of the Experimental Procedure to Examine the Response of CFRP Composites Subjected to a High-intensity Pulsed Electric Field

ROBERT J. HART, OLESYA I. ZHUPANSKA

NANOCOMPOSITES II

• Carbon Nanotube Based Network Heaters for Composite Adhesive Bonding

MICHAEL B. JAKUBINEK, MEYSAM RAHMAT, BEHNAM ASHRAFI, MARC GENEST, BENOIT SIMARD, ANDREW JOHNSTON and CHUN LI

• A Study of Mechanical Behavior of Polycarbonate Nanocomposites Using Molded Disk Specimens

YUNFA ZHANG, YADIENKA MARTINEZ-RUBI, SALIM DERDOURI, BENOIT SIMARD, QI YANG and ANDREW JOHNSTON

• Effects of Nanoparticles on the Shear Properties of Polymer Composites

ADDIS TESSEMA, WILLIAM MITCHELL, BEHRAD KOOHBOR, SURAJ RAVINDRA, ADDIS KIDANE and MICHEL VAN TOOREN

TEMPERATURE EFFECT II

• A Novel Computational Framework for the Oxidation of C/C Composites Under Thermal Shock

ALMA L. LEANOS and PAVANA PRABHAKAR

• Effect of Curing Induced Parameters During Manufacturing of Textile Composites

MD SHARIFUL ISLAM, A. G. CASTELLANOS and PAVANA PRABHAKAR

• Effect of Elevated Temperature on Adhesively Bonded Lightweight Material Single Lap Joints

ZHIJUN WU, MOUSTAPHA DIAB and SAYED A. NASSAR

• Thermo-Mechanical Behavior of Spatially Tailored Functionally Graded Materials in a High Temperature Environment

PHILLIP DEIERLING, OLESYA I. ZHUPANSKA and CRYSTAL L. PASILIAO

AUTOMOTIVE COMPOSITES I

• New Method to Analyze Numerical Crash Simulation Data to Assess the Suitability of Hybrid Composite Structures in Automotive Applications

MICHAEL DLUGOSCH, JENS FRITSCH, DIRK LUKASZEWICZ and STEFAN HIERMAIER

• Screw Geometry Design and Performance Effects on Fiber Breakage Study

CHAO-TSAI HUANG, HUAN-CHANG TSENG, MENG-CHIH CHEN and JIRI VLCEK

• Design and Development of Automotive Bumper Subsystem for Light Weight and Vehicular Crashworthiness

GIOVANNI BELINGARDI, ALEM T. BEYENE, GIADA FALCINELLI and BRUNETTO MARTORANA

COMPOSITES EDUCATION

• Extended Lamination Theory for Bridging Laminate Analysis to Composite Structures in Teaching Fundamentals of Composite Materials

WEN S. CHAN

• Student Simulation Challenge: A Competition-based Composites Education Opportunity

KISHORE POCHIRAJU, ENDEL IARVE, BAZLE HAQUE and MARK PANKOW

• Composite Catapult Arm Design: A Case Study of Composite Design, Manufacture, and Education

DAVID MOLLENHAUER, RYAN EMERSON, JOHN CAMPING and JAMES SANDS

• Laminate Strain Allowables as Design Parameters in Teaching an Introductory Course on Composite Materials

RANI W. SULLIVAN and THOMAS E. LACY, JR.

DAMAGE MODELING III

• Reducing the Notch Sensitivity of Quasi-isotropic layups Using Thin-ply Hybrid Laminates

MEISAM JALALVAND, GERGELY CZÉL and MICHAEL R. WISNOM

• Composite Patch Repair of Cracked Aluminum Structures

XIAODONG CUI, PHILIP LIU, EUGENE FANG, JIM LUA and DANIEL C. HART

• Simulation of Progressive Damage in Composites Using the Enhanced Embedded Element Technique

MATHEW W. JOOSTEN, ANDRIAN MOURITZ, AKBAR AFAGHI KHATIBI, STEVEN AGIUS, MATTHEW DINGLE, ASHLEIGH DENMEAD, MICHAEL SILCOCK, BARRY TRIPPIT and CHUN H. WANG

DOW STUDENT PAPERS

• Characterization of Fracture Properties of Nanographene Reinforced EPON 862 Polymer and Their Carbon Fiber Composites

ABHISHEK KUMAR

• Nanoscale Self Assembly of Triblock Copolymers in Epoxy Polymer Composites: A Comparison to Traditional Rubber Toughening

NICHOLAS T. KAMAR and LAWRENCE T. DRZAL

• Smart Hybrid ZnO Nanowire/carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites with In-situ Structural Health Monitoring Capability

AYOUB YARI BOROUJENI, MICHAEL PHILEN and MARWAN AL-HAIK

• Experimental and Computational Investigations of Hybrid Interfaces in Hybrid Composite Laminates

HIEU TRUONG, MARCIAS MARTINEZ, OZDEN OCHOA and DIMITRIS LAGOUDAS

DURABILITY AND DAMAGE TOLERANCE I

• Improving Damage Tolerance with Energy Absorbing Mesh in Composite Laminates: An Experimental Study

RAVI GONDALIYA, DAE WON KIM and DAVID SYPECK

• Damage Tolerance of Sandwich Foam Cores: Experimental Characterization and Numerical Modelling

LUIGI GIGLIOTTI and SILVESTRE T. PINHO

• A Numerical Study on the Effect of Facesheet-Core Disbonds on the Buckling Load of Curved Honeycomb Sandwich Panels

EVAN J. PINEDA, DAVID E. MYERS, BRETT A. BEDNARCYK and THOMAS M. KRIVANEK

• Degradation of Carbon Fiber Composite Materials Due to Electrical Current and Potential Impact on Synergistic Durability

MOHAMMAD FAISAL HAIDER, PRASUN K. MAJUMDAR and STEPHANIE ANGELONI

IMPACT & DYNAMIC RESPONSES III

• Characterization of Delamination in Translaminar Reinforced Composites Due to Low Velocity Impact

VIPUL RANATUNGA, SHREYAS JOGLEKAR, MARK PANKOW and STEPHEN CLAY

• Evaluation of Test Methods for Triaxially Braided Composites Using a Meso-scale Finite Element Model

CHAO ZHANG

• Characterization of the Mechanical and Impact Response of a New-Generation 3D Fiberglass Fabric

ZOHREH ASAEE and FARID TAHERI

• High-Velocity Impact Behavior of Stitched CFRP Laminates

AKINORI YOSHIMURA, SHO FUKUDA, YASUHITO MIKAMI, RYOHEI TSUJI, MASAHIRO NAKAYAMA, SHINJI OGIHARA, TOSHIO OGASAWARA and NAOYUKI WATANABE

MULTIFUNCTIONAL COMPOSITES III

• Enhancement of Electrical Conductivity and Assessment of Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Graphene/Epoxy Nanocomposites

KAZI AL IMRAN and KUNIGAL N. SHIVAKUMAR

• High Shear Strain Characterization of Plain Weave Fiber Reinforced Lamina

MICHAEL E. PETERSON, THOMAS W. MURPHEY and MAHMOUD REDA TAHA

• Asymptotical Modelling of Thermopiezoelastic Laminates

YUFEI LONG and WENBIN YU

AUTOMOTIVE COMPOSITES II

• Methodology for the Design and Optimization of Hybrid Structures in the Early Phase of Vehicle Development

MARCO OXENBAUER and KLEMENS ROTHER

• Cyclic Corrosion of Composite-Based Lightweight Material Single Lap Joints

SAYED A. NASSAR and EMAD MAZHARI

• Non-destructive Evaluation and Bonds Between Fiberglass Composites and Metals

SELINA ZHAO, KESTUTIS SONTA, DANIEL F. PEREY, K. ELLIOTT CRAMER and LIBBY BERGER

• The Flexural Strength and Modulus of a Randomly Oriented Carbon Fiber PEEK Composite

MARTIN DUCOTE and ALFRED LOOS

DURABILITY AND DAMAGE TOLERANCE II

• Micro-Scale Chemical, Morphological and Mechanical Characterization of Polymer-Matrix Textile Composites

DHRITI NEPAL, GYANESHWAR P. TANDON, TIMOTHY D. BREITZMAN, RICHARD B. HALL and DAVID MOLLENHAUER

• High-Speed 3D Digital Image Correlation of Low-Velocity Impacts on Composite Plates

MARK D. FLORES, DAVID MOLLENHAUER, VIPUL RUNATUNGA, TIMOTHY BERBENISS, DANIEL RAPKING and MARK PANKOW

• Repeated Tensile Loading of Thin-ply Pseudo-ductile Laminates

MICHAEL R. WISNOM, JONATHAN FULLER, PUTU SUWARTA and GERGELY CZÉL

• Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Discrete Damage and Residual Strength Prediction in Fatigue-Loaded CFRP Speciemns

KEVIN H. HOOS, ENDEL V. IARVE, MICHAEL BRAGINSKY, ERIC ZHOU and DAVID MOLLENHAUER

IMPACT & DYNAMIC RESPONSES IV

• Low Velocity Impact Damage Analysis of Nylon-66 Nanofiber Interleaf Composite Laminate

HIBA AHMED and KUNIGAL SHIVAKUMAR

• Low Velocity Impact Response of Bio-inspired Fiberglass Woven Composites

RAVI PRATAP SINGH TOMAR, MAHDI GHAZIZADEH, EARL H. MARTIN and AJIT D. KELKAR

• Impact Performance of a Hybrid ZnO Nanorod/Carbon Nanotube/Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite

AYOUB YARI BOROUJENI, AMIR ALIPOUR SKANDANI, ANAHITA EMAMI and MARWAN AL-HAIK

• Low Velocity Impact Strength of CFRP Composites Incorporating Nanoclay

SHERIF H. ABOUBAKR, CHRISTINA SALAS and MAHMOUD M. REDA TAHA

MICROMECHANICS

• The Role of Phase Shifts on Homogenized Modulus and Maximum Strength of Woven Laminated Composites

H. SAM HUANG

• CZM-Based FVDAM Analysis of Damage Evolution in Cross-Ply Laminates

WENQIONG TU and MAREK-JERZY PINDERA

• Challenge Problems for the Benchmarking of Micromechanics Analysis

ANDREW J. RITCHEY, JOHNATHAN GOODSELL, HAMSASEW M. SERTSE, WENBIN YU and R. BYRON PIPES

• Effective Characteristics of Composites with Non-linearly Elastic Components

ANDREY BEYLE and ANDREW GREEN

• A New Micromechanics Theory for Homogenization and Dehomogenization of Heterogeneous Materials

BO PENG and WENBIN YU

PROCESSING I

• Rapid Consolidation and Curing of Advanced Composites with Electron Beam Irradiation

ROBERT RIZZOLO, DANIEL WALCZYK and JARON KUPPERS

• An Integrated Modeling Approach for Composite Processing

LIANGKAI MA, SIDDHARTH RAM ATHREYA, RUJUL MEHTA, DEV BARPANDA and ASJAD SHAFI

• Electrospun Carbon Nanofibers from Polyacrylonitrile Solution: Influence of Relative Humidity on Morphology and Mechanical Properties

MEHMET S. DEMIRTAS, BIPUL BARUA and MRINAL C. SAHA

• Influence of Skin-core Effects on Residual Stress/Strain Distribution in Thick CFRTP Laminates

TAKUHEI TSUKADA, KENTAROU IWANAGA, SHU MINAKUCHI and NOBUO TAKEDA

• A Model for Electromagnetic Induction of Composites

JEROME T. TZENG and KUO-TA HSIEH

ARMOR AND PROTECTION I

• Force Attenuation of Aluminum Foam Core and Stainless Honeycomb Armored Sandwich Specimens Subject to Dynamic Loading

DANIEL WHISLER and HYONNY KIM

• Mesoscale Simulations of Ballistic Impact: From Woven Fabrics to Unidirectional Composites

SIDNEY CHOCRON, ALEXANDER J. CARPENTER and JAMES D. WALKER

BONDED JOINT

• Practical and Robust Bonded Joint Analysis Methodology: Application to Durable Redundant Joints

VINAY K. GOYAL, ERIC C. LUNDGREN, OSCAR ESQUIVEL, JACOB I. ROME and JOHN C. KLUG

• Improving the Damage Tolerance of Durable Redundant Joints

ERIC C. LUNDGREN, VINAY K. GOYAL, DHRUV N. PATEL and CATHERINE N. PHAN

• Failure Predictions of Out-of-Autoclave Sandwich Joints with Delaminations under Flexure Loads

NIKOLAS NORDENDALE, VINAY GOYAL, ERIC LUNDGREN, DHRUV PATEL, BABAK FARROKH, JUSTIN JONES, GRACE FISCHETTI and KENNETH SEGAL

DRZAL SYMPOSIUM I

• Plasma Coating of Glass Fibers to Improve the Interfacial Shear Strength in GF/Polyester Composites

VLADIMIR CECH, ANTONIN KNOB, TOMAS LASOTA, JAROSLAV LUKES and LAWRENCE T. DRZAL

• An Assessment of the SFFT in Hierarchical Composite Materials

LUIS A. HERNÁNDEZ-RAMÍREZ, ALEX VALADEZ-GONZÁLEZ and PEDRO J. HERRERA-FRANCO

IMPACT & DYNAMIC RESPONSES V

• Determination of Key Mechanical Properties for Simulating Delamination Damage in Impacted Bonded Joints of Composites

R. S. CHOUDHRY, S. LI, R. DAY and SYED F. HASSAN

• Study of Low Velocity Impact Damage in CFRP Laminates Using 3D Computed Tomography

BRANDON M. DEMERATH and OLESYA I. ZHUPANSKA

NANOCOMPOSITES III

• Structural CNT Composites Part II: Assessment of CNT Yarns as Reinforcement for Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels

JAE-WOO KIM, GODFREY SAUTI, ROBERTO J. CANO, RUSSELL A. WINCHESKI, JAMES G. RATCLIFFE, MICHAEL CZABAJ and EMILIE J. SIOCHI

• Structural CNT Composites Part I: Developing a Carbon Nanotube Filament Winder

GODFREY SAUTI, JAE-WOO KIM, RUSSELL A. WINCHESKI, ANDREW ANTCZAK, JAMIE C. CAMPERO, HOA H. LUONG, MICHELLE H. SHANAHAN, CHRISTOPHER J. STELTER and EMILIE J. SIOCHI

• Effect of MWCNTs on Creep of Epoxy for CFRP Deployable Composites

AMY GARNER, ARAFAT I. KHAN and MAHMOUD REDA TAHA

PREDICTION & CHARACTERIZATION OF DAMAGE I

• An Enriched Shell Element for Delamination Simulation in Composite Laminates

MARK MCELROY

• Challenges in Experimental Validation of Composite Damage Progression Models

STEPHEN CLAY, VIPUL RANATUNGA, MICHAEL WILKINSON and PHILIP KNOTH

• Composite Bonded and Bolted Joint Analysis Toolkit Based on Discrete Crack Network

NEETHI SIMON, EUGENE FANG, PHILLIP LIU and JIM LUA

TESTING AND CHARACTERIZATION I

• Buckling Characteristics of Composite Sandwich Plates with Corrugated Core

RAJESH K. BOORLE and P. K. MALLICK

• Evaluation of Adhesively Bonded Repair and Scarf-Type Infused Repair of Impact Damaged Fiber Reinforced Composites

ERMIAS G. KORICHO, ANTON KHOMENKO and MAHMOODUL HAQ

• Nonlinear Analysis and Preliminary Testing Results of a Hybrid Wing Body Center Section Test Article

ADAM PRZEKOP, DAWN C. JEGLEY, MARSHALL ROUSE, ANDREW E. LOVEJOY and HSI-YUNG T. WU

ARMOR AND PROTECTION II

• Extending Service Life and Detecting Degradation of Poly(p-phenylene-2,6-benzobisoxazole) (PBO) Fiber

JEFFREY L. ELLIS, JAY R. SAYRE, KELLY J. JENKINS, TIMOTHY B. HUTSON, RUSSELL E. ANTEL, BYRON TOLBERT, VINCENT MCGINNISS, STEVEN M. RISSER and RACHEL M. THURSTON

• Ballistic Modeling of S-2 Glass/SC-15 Epoxy Composites Using Mesoscale Models

ALEXANDER J. CARPENTER, SIDNEY CHOCRON and CHARLES E. ANDERSON, JR.

• Comparison Between Numerical and Experimental Results on Ballistic Strength of Multi-layer Fabric Body Armors

MARIO DIPPOLITO, YOUQI WANG, CHIAN-FONG YEN, JAMES Q. ZHENG and VIRGINIA HALLS

• Modeling Transverse Impact on Multi-Layer UHMWPE Soft Ballistic Armor Pack (SBAP)

BAZLE Z. (GAMA) HAQUE, MOLLA A. ALI and JOHN W. GILLESPIE, JR.

DRZAL SYMPOSIUM II

• Phenylethynyl-Terminated Polyimide (LaRC PETI-5), Exfoliated Graphite Nanoplatelets (xGnP), and Their Composites: An Overview

DONGHWAN CHO and LAWRENCE T. DRZAL

• Polylactic Acid Based Blends and Biocomposites with Improved Performance

VIDHYA NAGARAJAN, KUNYU ZHANG, MANJUSRI MISRA and AMAR K. MOHANTY

• Advanced Biorefinery Towards a New Innovation in Biocomposites Uses: How Sustainable this Journey is!

AMAR K. MOHANTY, SINGARAVELU VIVEKANANDHAN and MANJUSRI MISRA

• Exfoliated Graphite Nanoplatelets (xGnP) Based Nanocomposites: Its Past, Present, and Future

HIROYUKI FUKUSHIMA and INHWAN DO

MULTI-MATERIAL JOINING

• A Numerical Study on the Mechanical Behavior of Composite Suture Joint Structure

WENZHI WANG, LIJUN HE and WEI MAO

• Development of Reversible Bonded Joints Using Nano-Ferromagnetic Particles

ERMIAS G. KORICHO, ANTON KHOMENKO, MAHMOODUL HAQ and MICHAEL DAY

• Failure Analysis of Adhesively Bonded GFRP Single Lap Joints After Cyclic Environmental Loading

KAORI SAKAI and SAYED A. NASSAR

NAFEMS

• End-to-End FE Based Homogenization of Woven Composites

MAXIME A. MELCHIOR, MARC DUFLOT, JEAN-SÉBASTIEN GERARD, SAMUEL MELCHIOR, PHILIPPE HEBERT, LAURENT ADAM and ROGER ASSAKER

• Multi-Scale Modeling of Failure of Continuous Carbon Fiber Composites for Virtual Allowables

ANTHONY CHERUET, PHILIPPE HEBERT and LAURENT ADAM

• The Effects of Extrudate Swell, Nozzle Shape, and the Nozzle Convergence Zone on Fiber Orientation in Fused Deposition Modeling Nozzle Flow

BLAKE HELLER, DOUGLAS E. SMITH and DAVID A. JACK

• The Integration of Composite Constituent-Level Failure Models During Composite Size Optimization

JEFFREY A. WOLLSCHLAGER, ROBERT N. YANCEY, ROGER ASAKER, PIERRE-PAUL JEUNECHAMPS, GUILLAUME BOISOT, JEAN-SEBASTIEN GERARD, FRANK ABDI and MOHIT GARG

NANOCOMPOSITES IV

• Prediction of Fracture Properties in Nanographene Reinforced Polymers Using Atomistic Simulations

SAMIT ROY and AVINASH REDDY AKEPATI

• Modeling of Fracture Behavior in Polymer Composite Using Concurrent Multi-Scale Coupling Approach

SHIBO LI and SAMIT ROY

• Nanowire Stiffening of Woven Composites Towards Enhancing Interlaminar Fracture Toughness

ALEJANDRA CASTELLANOS, MD SHARIFUL ISLAM, SERGIO QUEVEDO, MOHAMMED A. I. SHUVO, YIRONG LIN and PAVANA PRABHAKAR

• Magnetically Recoverable Antibacterial Silver-Doped Magnetite/Zinc Oxide Core/Shell Composite Nanosheets for Photocatalytic Removal of Pollutants

KARUNAKARAN and P. VINAYAGAMOORTHY

PREDICTION & CHARACTERIZATION DAMAGE II

• Certification of Discontinuous Composite Material Forms for Aircraft Structures: Stiffness and Strength Predictions

KAREN HARBAN and MARK TUTTLE

• Limit State Design of Composite Structures Based on Characteristic States in Damage Evolution

YONGXIN HUANG and RAMESH TALREJA

• Experimental Study of the Meso-Scale Heterogeneous Deformation Response of Polymer Composites

BEHRAD KOOHBOR, SURAJ RAVINDRAN and ADDIS KIDANE

• Damage Analysis of Laminated Composites with SAMCEF: Validation on Industrial Applications

MICHAEL BRUYNEEL, JEAN-PIERRE DELSEMME, PHILIPPE JETTEUR, CÉDRIC LEQUESNE, BENOIT MAGNEVILLE, LOUIS SOPPELSA, SCOTT MCDOUGALL, TADASHI NAITO and YUTA URUSHIYAMA

TESTING AND CHARACTERIZATION II

• Allocation of Samples Between Exploration and Replication for Open-Hole-Tension Test

YIMING ZHANG, RAPHAEL T. HAFTKA, NAM-HO KIM, JACO F. SCHUTTE and WARUNA P. SENEVIRATNE

• Transverse Mechanical Properties of Unidirectional Hybrid Fiber Composites

CHARLES E. BAKIS and MAXIMILIAN J. RIPEPI

• Using Full-Field Measurement Capability of Digital Image Correlation to Assess 3D Properties of Composites

GUILLAUME SEON, ANDREW MAKEEV, JULIA CLINE, BRIAN SHONKWILER and ERIAN ARMANIOS

ARMOR AND PROTECTION III

• Carbon Fiber Textile Composite Solutions for High Speed Armor Piercing Ammunition

FRANÇOIS BOUSSU, PIERRE GARIN, JONATHAN PARIENTE and SÉBASTIEN LEMERCIER

• Processing and Mechanical Properties Investigation of Epoxy-Impregnated Graphene Paper

LIGUANG CAI, ALHARITH MANASRAH, AHMED AL-OSTAZ, XIAOBING LI, LAWRENCE T. DRZAL, BRIAN ROOK, ALEXANDER H.-D. CHENG and HUNAIN ALKHATEB

• Nano-Modified Hybrid Recycled Composite: An Alternative for Ballistic Shields

ALINE OLIVEIRA, VIVIANE MUNHOZ, ELVIS MONTEIRO and ANTONIO ÁVILA

• Dynamic Compressive Response of Polymeric Foams Subjected to Direct Impact Loading

BEHRAD KOOHBOR, ADDIS KIDANE and WEI-YANG LU

DRZAL SYMPOSIUM III

• Synthesis of Bipolar Plates for Fuel Cells Based on Exfoliated Graphene Nanoplatelets Filled Polymer Nanocomposites

XIAN JIANG and LAWRENCE T. DRZAL

• Damping Behavior and Mechanical Property of Graphene Nanoplatelet Paper

XIAOBING LI, ALHARITH MANASRAH, AHMED AL-OSTAZ, HUNAIN ALKHATEB and ALEXANDER CHENG

• The Effect of Processing on the Electrical Properties of Exfoliated Graphite Nanoplatelet/Polylactic Acid Nanocomposite Films

ERIN M. SULLIVAN, RICHARD FLOWERS, YUN JU OH, ROSARIO A. GERHARDT, BEN WANG and KYRIAKI KALAITZIDOU

• Polymer Nanocomposite for Strain Resilient Solder

AJIT K. ROY, CHENGGANG CHEN, SABYASACHI GANGULI and JASON R. FOLEY

EFFECTS AND DEFECTS

• Assessment of Composite Manufacturing Defects-—Current Approaches and Future Challenges

CAIHUA CAO, ALLEN J. FAWCETT, MARK C. IDEN and ADAM J. SAWICKI

• Effect of Manufacturing on the Dielectric Properties of Composite Materials

JEFFREY BAKER, MOHAMMAD FAISAL HAIDER, RASSEL RAIHAN and KENNETH REIFSNIDER

• Investigation of the Fiber Reinforced Laminates Stiffness Reduction Due to Internal Defects and Matrix Cracks

MOHAMMEDMAHDI SALAVATIAN and LLOYD V. SMITH

• Stress and Failure Analysis of Trailing Edge Joints in Wind Turbine Blades Containing Manufacturing Defects

CHANG CHEN and RAMESH TALREJA

FOAM CORES AND SANDWICHES I

• Tensile Properties of Cenosphere/HDPE Syntactic Foams Manufactured Using an Industrial Scale Injection Molding Technque

R. BHARATH KUMAR, MRITYUNJAY DODDAMANI and NIKHIL GUPTA

• Stiffness and Strength Models for Rigid PVC Structural Foams

KING HIM LO, AKIRA MIYASE and SU SU WANG

• Test Method Development, Deformation and Failure Strength of Rigid PVC Structural Foams

AKIRA MIYASE and SU SU WANG

• Characterization and Simulation of Divinycell H80 Closed-Cell Foam

ALI A. SAEID and STEVEN L. DONALDSON

MULTISCALE MODELING I

• Multi-Scale Characterization of an Adhesive Bondline with Fabrication Induced Defects

EUGENE FANG, JIM LUA, YONGJIE JESSICA ZHANG, YICONG LAI and WARUNA SENEVIRATNE

• Remove Homogeneous Layer Assumption from Lamination Theories

BO PENG and WENBIN YU

• Loss of Accuracy Using Smeared Properties in Composite Beam Modeling

NING LIU and WENBIN YU

• Experimental and Theoretical Evaluation of Stiffness Properties of Fused Deposition Modeling Parts

T. OSBORN, E. ZHOU, R. GERZESKI, D. MOLLENHAUER, G. P. TANDON, T. J. WHITNEY and E. V. IARVE

ONR I

• Whole Field 3D Internal Strain Distribution in a Composite Beam Under Three-Point Bent

FU-PEN CHIANG and LINGTAO MAO

• Role of Microstructure and Sea Water Confinement on Damage Evolution of Vinyl Ester Based Carbon Fiber Marine Composites

AKAWUT SIRIRUK and DAYAKAR PENUMADU

STRUCTURAL RESPONSE

• Equivalent Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Composite Materials in Lamina, Laminate and Structure Levels

KAMRAN TAVAKOLDAVANI, PETER L. LEBOULLUEC and WEN S. CHAN

• Dynamic Behavior of Metacomposites

K. T. TAN

• A Bridge Between Finite Element and Shear Lag Analyses for Fiber Pull Out

GEORGE AVERY and WILLIAM T. RIDDELL

• A Novel Composite Tube Design with Bend-Twist Coupling

SEAN ROHDE, PETER IFJU and BHAVANI SANKAR

DRZAL SYMPOSIUM IV

• Use of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy to Monitor Delamination and Moisture Uptake in CFRP-Reinforced Concrete Structures

GUY D. DAVIS, MICHAEL J. RICH and LAWRENCE T. DRZAL

• Functionalization of Graphene and Its Reinforced Nanocomposite

WANJUN LIU and LAWRENCE T. DRZAL

• Barrier and Mechanical Property Enhancement of High Density Polyethylene Through the Addition of Graphene Nanoplatelets

KEITH HONAKER, LAWRENCE DRZAL and FREDERIC VAUTARD

• Optimized Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites for High-Performance Applications: Toughening of Aromatic Epoxy Polymers via Aliphatic Epoxy Copolymers

MARKUS A. DOWNEY and LAWRENCE T. DRZAL

• Tailorable Adhesives for Multi-material Joining, Facile Repair and Re-assembly

MAHMOODUL HAQ, ERMIAS G. KORICHO, ANTON KHOMENKO, RICHARD GERTH and LAWRENCE T. DRZAL

GENERAL TOPIC

• Creep Behavior of Insulated Concrete Sandwich Panels

PAUL M. HOPKINS, THOMAS NORRIS, AN CHEN and MOSTAFA YOSSEF

• Effective Width of Insulated Sandwich Panels with Flexible FRP Shear Connectors Considering Partial Degree of Composite Action

MOSTAFA YOSSEF and AN CHEN

• A Study on Failure Behavior of Unidirectional Carbon Fiber Reinforced Thermosetting and Thermoplastic Composite

YAN MA, TOSHI SUGAHARA, YIYI ZHANG, YUQIU YANG and HIROYUKI HAMADA

• Effect of Water on the Mechanical Properties of Fiber Reinforced Polymers

ASHLEY L. SHEPP, SCOTT K. PEDERSEN, KEVIN D. DAHM and WILLIAM T. RIDDELL

MOLECULAR MODELING I

• Understanding the Damage of Polymer Matrix Composites by Integrating Chemical, Morphological and Mechanical Properties

DHRITI NEPAL, ALLISON ECKER, STEVE BARR, JAMES MOLLER, JACK CHALKER, BRITTANIE ROOTHS, EVAN MUNGALL, GARY KEDZIORA, RAJIV BERRY and TIM BREITZMAN

• Mechanical Properties of Graphene Nanoplatelet/Carbon Fiber/Epoxy Hybrid Composites: Multiscale Modeling and Experiments

CAMERON M. HADDEN, DANIELLE R. KLIMEK-MCDONALD, EVAN J. PINEDA, JULIE A. KING, ALEX M. REICHANADTER, IBRAHIM MISKIOGLU, S. GOWTHAM and GREGORY M. ODEGARD

• Fracture of Carbon Nanotube-—Amorphous Carbon Composites: Molecular Modeling

BENJAMIN D. JENSEN, KRISTOPHER E. WISE and GREGORY M. ODEGARD

• Computational Design of Carbon Enriched Ceramics for Improved Strength and Toughness

SHEIKH FAHAD FERDOUS and ASHFAQ ADNAN

• Viscoelastic Response of Microtubule-—Tau Proteins Assembly During Axonal Stretch: Combined Atomistic and Continuum Predictions

ASHFAQ ADNAN, SIDDIQ QIDWAI and AMIT BAGCHI

MULTISCALE MODELING II

• WSFE-based User-Defined Elements in ABAQUS for Modeling 2D Laminated Composites with Complex Features

ASHKAN KHALILI, DULIP SAMARATUNGA, RATNESHWAR JHA, THOMAS E. LACY and S. GOPALAKRISHNAN

• Computationally Efficient Solution of the High-Fidelity Generalized Method of Cells Micromechanics Relations

TRENTON M. RICKS, THOMAS E. LACY, JR., EVAN J. PINEDA, BRETT A. BEDNARCYK and STEVEN M. ARNOLD

• Effect of Notch-Induced Strain Gradients on the Applicability of Multiscale Approaches for Woven Composites

GEETA MONPARA, DON H. ROBBINS, JR. and RAY S. FERTIG III

ONR II

• Mechanical Performance of Fiber-reinforced Polymer Composites Under Concurrent Hygro-thermo-mechanical Loading

ROBERT PIRES, STEPHANIE ZHU, BENTOHOLDA DAVOODI, VALERIA LA SAPONARA and ANASTASIA MULIANA

• Seawater Effects on Transverse Tensile Properties of a Carbon/Vinylester Composite

MARYANN FICHERA, KYLE TOTTEN and LEIF A. CARLSSON

• Dynamic Response of Composite Plates Moving in Water

Y. W. KWON, S. C. MILLHOUSE, S. C. KNUTTON and S. ARCENEUX

• The Effect of Single Fiber Elastic Modulus Distribution and Modulus Strain Dependency on Carbon Fiber Tow Behavior

MATTHEW KANT and DAYAKAR PENUMADU

PROCESSING II

• Prediction of Capillary Pressure for Resin Flow within Fiber Unit Cells

MICHAEL YEAGER, WOOK RYOL HWANG and SURESH ADVANI

• Permeability of Glass Fabric Reinforced Vinyl Ester Composite by VARIM Process

ETHAN PEDNEAU and SU SU WANG

• Effects of Processing Conditions on Mechanical Properties of Quartz/BMI Laminates

KEITH R. HURDELBRINK II, JACOB P. ANDERSON, ZAHED SIDDIQUE and M. CENGIZ ALTAN

• Ultrasonic Energy Assisted Synthesis of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles

JOSHUA W. WEBSTER, BIPUL BARUA and MRINAL C. SAHA

• Internal Strain Monitoring of Vacuum Bag Only Process Using Optical Fiber Sensors

KAZUNORI TAKAGAKI, SHINSAKU HISADA, SHU MINAKUCHI and NOBUO TAKEDA

BIOCOMPOSITES I

• Modeling Arterial Walls as Composite Structures, and Their Interaction with Pulsatile Blood Flow

MARTINA BUKAC, SUNCICA CANIC and BORIS MUHA

• Two-component Dissipative Particle Dynamics Model of Red Blood Cell Membranes

ZHANGLI PENG, XUEJIN LI, IGOR PIVKIN and GEORGE KARNIADAKIS

• Thermal Properties of Mycology Materials

SONIA TRAVAGLINI, C. K. H. DHARAN and PHILIP G. ROSS

FOAM CORES AND SANDWICHES II

• Tribological Response of Cenosphere/Epoxy Syntactic Foams

VYASARAJ MANAKARI, GURURAJ PARANDE, KEERTI BAFNA, MRITYUNJAY DODDAMANI and NIKHIL GUPTA

• Influence of Exothermic and Endothermic Chemical Foaming Agents on the Physical and Mechanical Properties of the Polypropylene-Based Thermoplastic Structures

MOHAMMADREZA AZAD, MEHDI HOJJATI and HOSSEIN BORAZGHI

• Fixed Stiffness Weight and Cost Tradeoff of Hybrid Sandwich Structures

ADEL I. SALEM and STEVEN L. DONALDSON

MOLECULAR MODELING II

• Applying Reactive Molecular Dynamics to Predict and Compare the Mechanical Response of Di-, Tri-, and Tetra-functional Resin Epoxies

M. S. RADUE, B. D. JENSEN, S. GOWTHAM, G. M. ODEGARD, D. R. KLIMEK and J. A. KING

• Computational Design and Mechanical Behavior of Carbon Nanotube Reinforced LDPE/Nylon 6 Hybrid Polymer Nanocomposites

ASHFAQ ADNAN, SHEIKH F. FERDOUS and MUJIBUR R. KHAN

• A Computational Approach for Linking Molecular Dynamics to Finite Element Simulation of Polymer Chains in Polyethylene Fibers

SANJIB C. CHOWDHURY, JEFFREY STANISZEWSKI, EVAN M. MARTZ, RAJA H. GANESH, SUBRAMANI SOCKALINGAM, BAZLE Z. (GAMA) HAQUE, TRAVIS A. BOGETTI and JOHN W. GILLESPIE, JR.

NDT AND HEALTH MONITORING I

• Quantitative NDE of Composite Structures at NASA

K. ELLIOTT CRAMER, CARA A. C. LECKEY, PATRICIA A. HOWELL, PATRICK H. JOHNSTON, ERIC R. BURKE, JOSEPH N. ZALAMEDA, WILLIAM P. WINFREE and JEFFERY P. SEEBO

• Time Reversal Microwave Methods for Detecting Disbonds in Adhesively Bonded Metal-composite Structures

SAPTARSHI MUKHERJEE, MAHMOOD HAQ and LALITA UDPA

• Guided Wave Structural Health Monitoring for Impact Damage Detection and Characterization

GERGES DIB, OLEKSII KARPENKO, ERMIAS KORICHO, MAHMOODUL HAQ, LALITA UDPA and SATISH UDPA

PREDICTION & CHARACTERIZATION OF DAMAGE III

• Quantitative Description of Damage Evolution and Property Degradation of Fiber Reinforced Composite Materials

PRASUN K. MAJUMDAR, JALLISA CLIFFORD, MOHAMMAD FAISAL HAIDER and KENNETH REIFSNIDER

• 3D Progressive Damage Modeling for Laminated Composite Based on Crack Band Theory and Continuum Damage Mechanics

JOHN T. WANG, EVAN J. PINEDA, VIPUL RANATUNGA and STANLEY S. SMELTZER

• On Nonlocal Mechanics Based Ultrasonic Methods for the Detection of Inception of Damage in Composites

SUBIR PATRA and SOURAV BANERJEE

TEXTILE COMPOSITES I

• Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Triaxially Braided Composites Utilizing a Modified Subcell Modeling Approach

CHRISTOPHER CATER, XINRAN XIAO, ROBERT K. GOLDBERG and LEE W. KOLHMAN

• Modeling of 3D Woven Composites with Realistic Geometry for Accurate Prediction of Kinking under Compressive Loads

SHREYAS JOGLEKAR and MARK PANKOW

• Simulation of the Manufacturing Process of Braided Composite Tubes for Realistic Microstructure Representation

CHRISTIAN HEINRICH and ANTHONY M. WAAS

BIOCOMPOSITES II

• Biochar and Its Size Effects on Polyamide 6/Biochar Composites

TIM HUBER, MANJUSRI MISRA and AMAR KUMAR MOHANTY

• The Opportunities of Biofuel Coproducts in Value-Added Biocomposite Applications

NIMA ZARRINBAKHSH, AMAR K. MOHANTY and MANJUSRI MISRA

• Evaluation of Mechanical and Interfacial Properties of Individual Lignin Carbon Fiber and Composites

NATHAN MEEK, DAYAKAR PENUMADU, DAVID HARPER, OMID HOSSEINAEI and TIMOTHY RIALS

FOAM CORES AND SANDWICHES III

• Influence of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube on Mixed Mode Fracture of Sandwich Composite

ALAK KUMAR PATRA and NILANJAN MITRA

• Facesheet to Core Interface Characterization of Sandwich Structures

ALI A. SAEID and STEVEN L. DONALDSON

MOLECULAR MODELING III

• Partially Reacted Substructures Method for Thermoset Epoxies Studied Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations

CHANGWOON JANG, MAJID SHARIFI, GIUSEPPE R. PALMESE and CAMERON F. ABRAMS

• Effect of Cross-Linker Length of EPON 828 Resin Properties Using Molecular Dynamics Simulation

SANJIB C. CHOWDHURY, ROBERT M. ELDER, TIMOTHY W. SIRK, BAZLE Z. (GAMA) HAQUE, JAN W. ANDZELM and JOHN W. GILLESPIE, JR.

• A Computational Molecular Dynamic Study on Epoxy-Based Network: Thermo-Mechanical Properties

OLANREWAJU ALUKO, S. GOTHAM, SORAYOT CHINKANJANAROT, MATTHEW RADUE and GREGORY M. ODEGARD

• Computational Insights into High Strain Rate Self-stiffening Mechanism in Nacre

JIALIN LIU, XIAODONG LI and YUE QI

NDT AND HEALTH MONITORING II

• Vibration Characteristics and Damage Detection of Composite Structures with Anisotropic Damage Using Unified Particle Swarm Optimization Technique

T. R. JEBIESHIA, D. K. MAITI and D. MAITY

• Ultrasonic and X-ray Inspection of a High Performance Carbon Fiber Composite for Automotive Applications

CAMERON J. DASCH, GEORGE J. HARMON and MARTIN H. JONES

• Non-Destructive X-ray Computed Microtomography Inspection of Composites Containing Manufacturing Defects

JEFFREY T. CHAMBERS and KONSTANTINE A. FETFATSIDIS

PREDICTION & CHARACTERIZATION OF DAMAGE IV

• Quantitative Acoustics Approach for Damage Detection in Hard Armor Protective Inserts

SHANE ESOLA, IVAN BARTOLI, SUZANNE E. HORNER, JAMES Q. ZHENG and ANTONIOS KONTSOS

• Three-Dimensional Analysis of Damage Propagation in Unidirectional Polymer Composites Using X-ray Computed Tomography and Digital Volume Correlation

SIRINA SAFRIET, TORIN QUICK, DAVID MOLLENHAUER and CHAD RYTHER

• Tortuosity of Fracture Surfaces in Composite Microstructures

TIMOTHY D. BREITZMAN and ERIC ZHOU

TEXTILE COMPOSITES II

• Mechanical Properties and Initial Fracture Behavior of Multilayer Laminated Intra-Hybrid Woven Fabric Composite

ZHILAN XU, DAIKI ICHIKAWA, YAN MA, YUQIU YANG and HIROYUKI HAMADA

• Dynamic Yarn Pull-Out from In- and Out-of-Plane Directions

ZHERUI GUO, JIHYE HONG, JAMES ZHENG and WEINONG CHEN

• Composite Belleville Springs

WATCHARAPONG PATANGTALO, MICHAEL W. HYER and SONTIPEE AIMMANEE

• Progressive Damage and Failure Responses of Hybrid 3D Textile Composites Subjected to Dynamic Flexural Loading

DIANYUN ZHANG, ANTHONY M. WAAS and CHIAN-FONG YEN