UAMMI partners with AUVSI to promote advanced materials in AAM
A free, four-part educational series aims to bring awareness of composite materials’ advantages to the uncrewed systems and autonomy community.
Source | UAMMI
The Utah Advanced Materials Manufacturing Initiative (UAMMI, Kaysville, U.S.) has partnered with the Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI, Arlington, Va., U.S.) to provide a free educational series, which seeks to introduce advanced materials manufacturing to the advance air mobility (AAM) aircraft manufacturing market.
The first course, “Composites: Lighter, Stronger, Better,” teaches AAM aircraft companies how composites are helping the industry to be better stewards of the world by identifying what materials are used to make composites, and how composites impact weight, strength and stiffness of manufacturing materials. UAMMI provided content for the series through a licensing agreement with the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE, Diamond Bar, Calif., U.S.) for a four-part series developed by Dr. Brent Strong.
This course’s objective are to:
- Understand what composites are and why they are different from other structural materials like metals;
- Understand designing of composites and why they are more complex but better (lighter, stronger, stiffer) than other structural materials;
- Improve decision-making capability when considering composites;
- Appreciate the many methods used to make composite parts and when each method should be used.
The course is offered through AUVSI’s community engagement and education platform, Aville, which consists of a growing diverse population of individuals from more than 60 countries and all 50 U.S. states. Individuals hail from the air, ground, maritime and cyber domains; commercial, government, defense and academic sectors; and a high percentage in engineering, R&D and management careers.
The uncrewed systems and autonomy community is experiencing an increased focus on finding creative ways to improve manufacturing capacity and provide technically enhanced, more adaptable uncrewed systems. By introducing the AUVSI Aville audience to the composites and additive manufacturing courses, UAMMI aims to promote awareness of this important advancement to the AAM manufacturing industry.
The “Composites: Lighter, Stronger, Better” course is offered at no charge and can be accessed through this link.
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