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Tuesday, May 25 2010

07:30 Registration
08:00 Walter Juzukonis, Workshop Organizer
Welcome & Logistics
08:05 Clare Paul, Branch Chief,
Comp. & Hybrid Materials
Opening Remarks
08:10 Jeff Baur, Branch Technical Advisor
Comp. & Hybrid Materials
Composite and Hybrids Materials Technical Overview

Adaptive, Active & Multifunctional Materials (AAM)

08:30 Dean Foster, AAM Program Manager
AAM Program Overview: From Morphing to MAVs
8:50 Terry Sanderson, Raytheon Missile Systems
Materials Technologies Needed for Morphing UAV’s
09:20 Ryan Justice, Morphing Contract Lead
Summary of Morphing Materials Technologies developed through SBIRs
09:40 G. P. Tandon, Amber McClung, & Joe Shumaker,
Research Project Leads
Shape Memory Polymers &
Composites – Novel Synthesis, Characterization, Durability, and Modeling
10:00 Dave Phillips, Research Project Lead
Alternative Multifunctional Approaches – Microvascular (Thermomechanical,), and Granular
10:20 Break
10:40 Gregg Abate, Chief Engineer, AFRL MAV
Steering Group
Air Force Research Laboratory Micro Air Vehicles (MAV) Activity and Material Needs
11:00 Professor Peter Ifju, University of Florida
Implementing Novel Actuators and Sensors for MAV’s
11:20 Matt Maschmann and Qiuhong Zhang
Research Project Leads
CNT/CF as Artificial Hair Sensors for MAV Gust Alleviation
11:40 Ryan Justice, Research Project Lead
Variable Stiffness & Actuation Technologies for MAVs
12:00 Lunch

Hybrids for Extreme Environments (HEE) &
Hypersonic Glide Vehicle (HGV)

13:00 Andy Swanson, Focus Challenge 7 Lead
Responsive Space Access Structures Development in RB
13:30 Suraj P. Rawal, Lockheed-Martin
Industrial Perspective of the Need for Hybrid Materials as it Relates to R&D and It’s Applications for Extreme Environments
14:00 Vernon Bechel, HEE Tech Lead
and Marilyn Unroe, HEE, HGV PM
HEE Overview: Functionally Graded Materials for Hot Structures
14:00 Victor Arrieta, Ultramet Tech Lead
Aerogel-Carbon Foam – Ti Hybrid for HGV Insulation
14:40 Break
15:00 Brian Sullivan and Kerry Hopp,
MR&D Technical Leads
PMC-CMC Hybrids for Standoff and Load Bearing TPS Structures
15:20 Alex Morgan, Research Project Lead
Metal/Bismaleimide and Ceramic/Polyimide Assemblies
15:40 Eric Zhou, Research Project Lead
Modeling of graded Morphology Formation by Infusion of Films with Suspended Particles
16:00 Endel Iarve, Research Project Lead
Coupled Oxidation and Cracking Modeling for Hybrid Residual Strength Predictions
16:20 Concluding Remarks
16:20 Adjournment

Wednesday, May 26 2010

08:00 Registration
08:15 Clare Paul, Branch Chief Comp. & Hybrid
Materials
Housekeeping

Composite & Hybrid Insertion Tools & Technology (ITT)

08:30 Greg Schoeppner, Certification Lead
Material Qualification for the AF Airworthiness Process
09:00 Maj. David Sutter, ITT Program Manager
David Mollenhauer, ITT Technical Lead
ITT Program Overview: Decreasing
the Insertion Time of New Materials
09:30 David Mollenhauer, Research Project Lead
Realistic Complex Composite Morphologies and Their Prediction
10:00 Break
10:30 Tim Breitzman, Research Project Lead
Computational Methods for Optimization of Composite Repair
11:00 Tara Storage, Jihean Lee, & Bill Lee; Research
Project Leads
Processing Science of High Temperature Polyimide Resins
11:30 Lunch

Electromagnetic Hardened Materials (EMH)

13:00 Max Alexander, EMH PM
EMH Overview: Development and Transition of Materials Systems for EM Protection
13:30 David Widauf, OO-ALC/XP,
Deputy Director of Adv. Tech. Prog. Off.
EM Protection Needs from an Air Logistical Center Perspective
14:40 Ben Tran, AFRL/RBCC
Material Needs for an RF Immune Avionics Enclosure
14:30 Doug Armstrong, Advanced Systems Manager,
ITT Walpole
Industrial Perspective on Space Hardened Structures
15:00 Break
15:30 Steve Rodgers, ITT SLC /SAMPE
Industrial Perspective on EM Structures
16:00 Todd McNeill, Eclipse Engineering
Transitioning Hybrid Composite Reflectors to the Field
16:00 Concluding Remarks
16:20 Adjournment
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