International SAMPE Symposium and Exhbition

2009

1st Place
The New Infusion: Oven Vacuum Bag Prepreg Fabrication
Thomas D. Juska, Barry S. Musser, ARL Penn State, State College, PA; Bonnie P. Jordan, Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding-Newport News, Newport News, VA; Jeffrey C. Hall, General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, CT

2nd Place
Thermoplastic Stiffened Wing Skin Made by Advanced Fiber Placement
Peter Nijhuis, National Aerospace Laboratory NLR, Marknesse, The Netherlands

3rd Place
Out-of-Autoclave Composite Technology for Aerospace, Defense and Space Structures
Chris Ridgard, Advanced Composites Group Inc., Tulsa, OK

International SAMPE Technical Conference

2009

1st Place
900°F Glass Transition Temperature Material for Structural Composites and High Temperature Composite Tooling Applications
Jason E. Lincoln, Zachary McHale, Robert J. Jurek, Sara L. Hout, and David B. Curliss, Performance Polymer Solutions Inc., Moraine, OH

2nd Place
Advanced Composite Cargo Aircraft
John D. Russell, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH; Barth Shenk, Richard Holzwarth, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force, Base, OH; Mike Swanson, Derek Paige, Mark Tresnak, Scott Ames, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Palmdale, CA; Peter Neumeier, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Marietta, GA

3rd Place
Improvements in FEA of Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels
Rick P. Willardson, eServ, a Perot Systems Company, Plano, TX; David L. Gray, Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp., Lewisvilel, TX; Thomas K. DeLay, NASA, MSFC, Huntsville, AL

Fiber Optic Monitoring of Structural Composites using Optical Backscatter Reflectometry
Daniel M. Peairs, Lisa Sterner, Kevin Flanagan, and Vladimir Kochergin, Luna Innovations, Blacksburg, VA