U.S.-Italy Cooperative Research: Advanced Polymeric Composites

该奖项将支持华盛顿大学的John L.Kardos教授与那不勒斯大学的L.Nicolais教授开展研究合作。研究人员计划继续以前得到支持的先进聚合物复合材料领域的工作。更具体地说，在接下来的三年里，他们打算致力于：(1)热固性树脂复合材料的加工；(2)热塑性树脂复合材料的加工；(3)主模型性能输入；以及(4)碳纤维和玻璃纤维床的蒸汽和液体渗透性。研究人员是经验丰富的合作者；他们最近完成的热固性加工研究，其中许多加工模型是在美国开发的，许多基本数据需要作为从意大利获得的模型的输入，这是他们许多工作固有的互补性的一个例子。拟议中的项目处于新兴技术的前沿，这对两国的战略材料基地和经济都至关重要。

This award will support Professor John L. Kardos of Washington University in a research collaboration with Professor L. Nicolais of the University of Naples. The investigators plan to continue previously supported work in the area of advanced polymer composites. More specifically, over the next three years they intend to work on: (1) Processing of thermosetting resin composites; (2) processing of thermoplastic resin composites; (3) master model property inputs; and (4) vapor and liquid permeabilities of carbon and glass fiber beds. The researchers are experienced collaborators; their recently completed effort on thermosetting processing research, in which many of the processing models were developed in the U.S. with much of the basic data needed as input to the models obtained from Italy, is an example of the complementarity intrinsic to much of their work. The proposed projects are on the forefront of emerging technology that is critically important to the strategic materials base as well as the economies of both countries.