Dr. Frank Abdi is the
founder of Alpha STAR Corporation. He worked at Rockwell International for
fifteen years where he was the manager of Advanced Program’s Controlled
Configured Vehicle Research organization. He has over thirty years experience
in computer based modeling and code development for a range of applications
associated with advanced structures, material processing and composite mechanics.
While at Rockwell he was responsible for the design and simulation of: NASP
(X30), B1-B bird strike, Advanced Launch System (ALS), Boosted Penetrator,
Swedish Fighter, Special Operation Aircraft (SOA), and Shuttle Redesign. Within
Alpha STAR he has been responsible for: Advanced Composite Technology durability
and damage tolerance program, Aero-elastic Concept Engineering (ACE) and several
NASA sponsored SBIR, STTR, and ATP and Computational Structural Mechanics
(CSM) projects.. He has published over 40 journal papers in optimization,
materials science and computational structural analysis, authored a book in
process optimization and edited another book.
Brooks Lively, Matt Ballard, David Fullwood
Mechanical Engineering
Department,
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602
Integral to the advancement of technology is the development of novel materials with increased functionality. Thus, an important area of study is the development of multifunctional materials which combine useful properties of existing materials and provide new functions. Our study is aimed at the impregnation of composite materials with different metals during the filament winding process. The main focus of the research to this point has been developing a new method for the impregnation of the metals during winding. Future research will involve using materials such as magnetic powder or nano-nickel to produce composites with different desired properties for various uses. Our presentation will review our efforts and issues in developing a process for the impregnation of metals in filament wound composites.