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Research Team from Oak Ridge National Lab and the UMaine Composites Center receive award for innovation in green composites design

Researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Maine received a prestigious Award for Composites Excellence for research conducted in 3D printing a sustainable biocomposite foam for use in lightweight structural applications. The award, presented to the ORNL and UMaine team by the American Composites Manufacturers Association, recognizes outstanding achievement in innovation […]

Buzzelli’s research addressing affordable housing shortage through additive manufacturing presented to top national laboratories

Angelina Buzzelli, a University of Maine MBA student and Graduate Assistant at the UMaine Advanced Structures and Composites Center, is contributing research at the national level to address the shortage of affordable housing in the U.S. through innovative 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, technology. Buzzelli recently shared her research with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and […]

UMaine awarded $2.8 million to accelerate wind blade development through additive manufacturing

Orono, Maine — The University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center has been awarded $2.8 million from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy to develop a rapid, low-cost additive manufacturing — 3D printing — solution for fabricating large, segmented wind blade molds. In addition, the UMaine Composites Center […]

Article by Bhandari and Lopez-Anido about research work in 3D printing published in the journal “Materials”

An article by PhD student Sunil Bhandari, titled Discrete-Event Simulation Thermal Model for Extrusion-Based Additive Manufacturing of PLA and ABS, has been published in a special issue “Additive Manufacturing Methods and Modeling Approaches” from the journal “Materials”. The article, which was co-authored by Dr Roberto A. Lopez-Anido, acts as a chapter in Bhandari’s dissertation. The […]

Dr. Habib Dagher featured on Babbage, a podcast by the Economist

Dr. Habib Dagher, Executive Director, Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was featured on Babbage, a weekly podcast on science and technology from The Economist. Hosted by Kenneth Cukier, Babbage focuses on innovations making the news and is published every Wednesday. The episode published on Wednesday, November 13 included in-depth coverage of 3D printing and its […]

Article by Sunil Bhandari, Roberto A. Lopez-Anido, Douglas J. Gardner published in JOM

An article by PhD student Sunil Bhandari, titled Elasto-Plastic Finite Element Modeling of Short Carbon Fiber Reinforced 3D Printed Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene Composites, has been published on the website of the JOM journal by the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society. The article, which was coauthored by Doctors Roberto A. Lopez-Anido and Douglas Gardner, acts as […]

Article by Sunil Bhandari, Roberto A. Lopez-Anido, Douglas J. Gardner published in Additive Manufacturing

An article by PhD student Sunil Bhandari, titled Enhancing the interlayer tensile strength of 3D printed short carbon fiber reinforced PETG and PLA composites via annealing, has been published on the website of the Additive Manufacturing journal by Elsevier. The article, which was also coauthored by Doctors Roberto A. Lopez-Anido and Douglas Gardner, acts as […]

Article by Elliott Sanders, Yousoo Han, Todd Rushing, and Douglas Gardner Published in MDPI Nanomaterials

An article by PhD student Elliott Sanders, titled Electrospinning of Cellulose Nanocrystal-Filled Poly (Vinyl Alcohol) Solutions: Material Property Assessment, has been published on the website of the Nanomaterials journal by the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute. The article was coauthored by Yousoo Han, Todd Rushing, and Doctor Douglas Gardner. The following is the abstract for the article: Poly […]

New $20 million additive manufacturing initiative connects local economies with national lab, UMaine resources

A new research collaboration between the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will advance efforts to 3D print with wood products, creating a new market for Maine’s forest products industry. U.S. Sens. Susan Collins, Lamar Alexander and Angus King joined Daniel Simmons, assistant […]

Second Article by Alrubaie, Lopez-Andio, Gardner, Tajvidi, Han Published in Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials

A second article by Ph.D student Murtada Alrubaie, titled Experimental investigation of the hygrothermal creep strain of wood–plastic composite lumber made from thermally modified wood, has been published on the website of the Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials. The article was co-authored by Dr. Roberto Lopez-Anido, Dr. David Gardner, Dr. Mehdi Tajvidi, and Dr. Yousoo Han. The following is […]

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