Symposium SF09-Aerospace Materials for Extreme Environments

Ambitions for space exploration are driving the aerospace industry to develop materials capable of withstanding harsh, and ever-changing environments. These innovations have far-reaching impacts across civil and defense aviation. The next generation aerospace vehicles demand materials that can endure increasingly extreme temperatures, shock, vacuum, radiation, micrometeoroids, and corrosive substances. This is particularly challenging for space vehicles developed for human space exploration, and robust methods for assessing material survivability that simulate the precise details of specific environments are essential. Technologies such as additive manufacturing (AM), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for composition selection, automated fiber placement (AFP), and functional metamaterials are driving material innovation. This symposium focuses on emerging materials design, fabrication, characterization, modelling, and test methods leveraged by the aerospace industry to meet the challenges associated with space travel. The trickle-down effect from these technologies that benefit the aerospace industry in general will also be addressed. This includes progress in sustainability through advanced materials selection for lightweighting and removal of hazardous chemicals, and materials fabrication optimization. Finally, with a rapidly changing landscape, the most pressing needs in aerospace materials will be presented and discussed by funding program officers in a panel Q&A session. Panelists will share emerging materials science needs and themes for aerospace applications.

Topics will include:

Processing considerations for materials in extreme environments
Multi-scale modelling of material structures and environments
Funding trends in Aerospace Materials
Advances in aerospace coating technologies
Sustainable materials for aerospace applications
Novel materials and structures for evolving space environments
Multifunctional aerospace structures

Invited Speakers:

Michael Barako (Northrop Grumman, USA)
Derek Barbee (Air Force Office of Scientific Research, USA)
Michael Brindza (Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division, USA)
Sang-Hyon Chu (NASA Langley Research Center, USA)
Tim Fisher (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Nancy Kelley-Loughnane (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)
Marianna Maiaru (Columbia University, USA)
Kara Martin (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)
Scott McCormack (University of California Davis, USA)
Nobuyuki Odagiri (Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan)
Michelle Povinelli (University of Southern California, USA)
Nadine Rehfeld (Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials, Germany)
Ali Sayir (Air Force Office of Scientific Research, USA)
Jill Seebergh (The Boeing Company, USA)
Navid Zobeiry (University of Washington, USA)