Center for Advanced Materials in Transport Aircraft Structures (AMTAS)

Summary of the

AMTAS/JAMS Center of Excellence

prepared by

Mark Tuttle, AMTAS Director 206-543-5710

tuttle@u.washington.edu

Background – FAA Centers of Excellence

FAA Centers of Excellence (COE): •  COE program established in 1995 (Dr. Pat Watts, Director) •  COEs are funded through cooperative agreements among

academic institutions, industrial partners, and the FAA •  FAA funds must be matched 1:1 by non-federal sources •  (Nominally) 10-year “life” for each COE •  About 13 COEs (past and present) have been established

since ‘95 (www.faa.gov/go/coe). Current COEs devoted to: •  Airport technology •  Intermodal transport environment •  General aviation (currently, two GA research centers) •  Aircraft noise and emissions mitigation •  Advanced materials •  Commercial space transportation

•  Proposals to establish a new COE devoted to alternate jet fuels are currently being evaluated by FAA

Background – FAA Centers of Excellence

www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ang/offices/management/coe/facts/

The FAA Joint Advanced Materials & Structures (JAMS) Center of Excellence

Dec. 2003: FAA announces co-winners of a competition to establish a new Joint Advanced Materials & Structures (JAMS) Center of Excellence:

- University of Washington (UW) - Wichita State University (WiSU)

UW and WiSU subsequently established their respective

programs: •  UW: Center for Advanced Materials in Transport

Aircraft Structures (AMTAS) •  WiSU: Center of Excellence for Composites and

Advanced Materials (CECAM)

AMTAS (Advanced Materials for Transport Aircraft Structures) ●  University of Washington, Lead ●  Washington State University ●  Oregon State University ●  Edmonds Community College ●  Florida International University ●  University of Utah

CECAM (Center for Composites and Advanced Materials) ●  Wichita State University, Lead ●  Northwestern University ●  Purdue University ●  Tuskegee University ●  University of Delaware ●  University of California at Los Angeles

JAMS COE Member Schools

AMTAS Administration (Remaining slides are AMTAS-centric)

•  Curt Davies (FAA Hughes Research Center, New Jersey) serves as the JAMS-AMTAS-CECAM Program Manager

•  FAA Technical Monitors (Hughes RC): Allan Abramowitz, Curt Davies, Dave Galella, Lynn Pham, Dave Westlund

•  Larry Ilcewicz, FAA NRS, Composites (Renton, Washington) also helps monitor all AMTAS projects

•  Administration of UW-AMTAS: •  Prof. Mark Tuttle, AMTAS Director •  Prof. Kuen Lin, AMTAS Co-Director •  Ms. Ellen Barker, Assistant to the Director

AMTAS Participants

•  AMTAS currently consists of: •  Six academic partners •  Twelve industrial partners

•  Boeing is most active industrial partner (e.g., annually provides ~$500k in cash and in-kind matching support)

•  UW provides ~$75k annually, to help offset AMTAS administrative costs: •  Office of the Provost •  College of Engineering •  Departments of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Materials

Science and Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering

AMTAS Activities

•  AMTAS activities can be roughly grouped into three main categories •  Education •  Technology transfer •  Research

AMTAS Activities Education (UW activities only)

•  Ten different undergraduate and graduate-level composite courses intended for degree-seeking students; offered by the departments of A&A, MSE, and ME

•  Composite short courses intended for practicing engineers: •  5-day version (10 instructors from academia and industry);

offered sporadically on UW campus since 2006 •  2.5 day version (1 instructor); offered twice since 2011

•  Other synergistic activities (not funded via AMTAS): •  Boeing Certificate Program in Aircraft Composite Structural

Analysis and Design •  MAE degree with emphasis on composite structures

AMTAS Activities Technology Transfer

•  AMTAS Technical Meetings, held in the Pacific Northwest •  Sixteen one-day meeting held since 2004 •  Speakers from all AMTAS universities, industry partners, and FAA •  Occasional guest speakers describing non-aerospace composite

applications (wind turbines, tidal turbines, sporting goods, etc) •  Typically 60-80 attendees

•  Annual JAMS Technical Meetings, held at various locations •  Two-day meeting held every spring/early summer since 2005 •  Speakers from all 12 JAMS-AMTAS-CECAM universities

•  Summaries and presentations from virtually all AMTAS and JAMS meetings available from AMTAS website: http://depts.washington.edu/amtas/events/index.html

•  One or more Boeing engineer(s) is an active participant in all AMTAS projects conducted at the UW

AMTAS Activities Research

•  In keeping with the underlying FAA mission, all AMTAS research projects are related in some way to aircraft safety and/or certification

•  Funding levels depend on project…a typical AMTAS project receives $50k-$75k/yr from the FAA

•  Selection of specific research topics/projects based on collective input from: •  FAA (← greatest influence; safety/cert; C. Davies &

L. Ilcewicz) •  Industrial partners (← significant influence, especially if cash

match provided!) •  Academia (← significant influence)

AMTAS Activities Research – Current Projects

•  Delamination/Disbond Arrest in Composite Structures (Kuen Y. Lin, UW)

•  Improving Adhesive Bonding of Composites (Brian Flinn, UW) •  Analytical Chemistry Methods for Detecting Surface Contamination and

Moisture (Dwayne McDaniel, FIU) •  Durability of Adhesively Bonded Joints (Dan Adams, UoU)

•  Composite Thermal Damage Measurement with FT-IR (Brian Flinn, UW)

•  Damage Tolerance of Sandwich Composites (D. Adams, UoU)

•  Out-of-Plane Loading of Thick Laminates (J. Parmigiani, OSU)

•  Composite Crashworthiness (Paolo Feraboli, UW)

•  Certification of Discontinuous Fiber Composite Structures (Mark Tuttle, UW)

•  Assessment of Active Flutter Suppression Technologies (new Autumn 2013,

Eli Livne, UW)

AMTAS Accomplishments

A recent summary of AMTAS accomplishments was prepared for Pat Watts, FAA COE Director. Highlights (since 2004) are: •  Research studies of 10 faculty PIs at six universities supported •  Approximately 75 Journal or Proceeding articles published •  Approximately 40 graduate degrees (Ph.D or MS) earned;

more in-progress •  Hosted, co-hosted, or participated in 27 technical meetings •  Developed and maintain a highly-regarded website:

http://depts.washington.edu/amtas/ •  Developed new (a) university-based composite courses, and

(b) short courses for practicing engineers and technicians •  Many synergetic effects: Boeing Composite Certificate

program, MAE composite degree, strengthened ties between academia, industry and government, etc

Thank you for your attention!

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