A NASA material science research project, characterizing the expected service life of composite materials, with experimental testing and MATLAB simulation. Designed custom automated instrumentation and data-acquisition rigs in SolidWorks.
Access the published thesis here: Proquest Cashmore Thesis
Figure: Material degradation rates measured using cryogenic solid particle erosion testing
Custom fabricated instrumentation and testing rigs to measure particle velocity, particle blast spatial distribution, and radial velocity distributions.
All experimentally measured data was validated with application-specific CFD simulation in MATLAB.
Figure: Solid particle erosion rate and damage shape influencers
Figure: Laser Doppler velocimetry test rig design to measure radial velocity
Figure: Radial velocity experimental setup
Figure: Computational grid of erosive blast
Figure: Erosive Blast CFD, simulating abrasive flight characteristics
Figure: Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) particulate characteristic measurement
This research was funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)
