College of Engineering

Advanced Fiber Reinforced Composites

Date: Oct. 13, 2009
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Place: 104 Textile Engineering Building

Mahesh Hosur
Professor of materials science engineering
Tuskegee University

Abstract

Hosur's research addresses the affordability of composites with increased performance, survival, reliability and maintainability. Hosur will discuss his main objective to disperse nanoparticles into the fiber, matrix and foam of a composite material, as well as to fabricate macro-scale systems out of nanophased constituent material. He will highlight current and future research on the performance of affordable composites under impact loading, as well as recent advances made in the investigations of structural nanocomposites.