Funding Agency: U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
Partners: CCM, Johns Hopkins University, Drexel, Purdue
Through ARL’s MEDE and iCREATE programs, CCM developed a Materials by Design approach for new materials (resins, fibers and interphases) optimized for increased energy absorption and damage tolerance under extreme dynamic loading. A building block approach successfully bridges materials modeling from the atomic to micro to meso to continuum length scales. Experimental validation was conducted at each length scale and through integrative models and experiments. Work culminated with two successful full-scale capstone demonstrations of novel hybrid composites subjected to extreme impact loading.