About the CMS 2025 Conference
The annual Conference on Composites, Materials, & Structures (also known as the Cocoa Beach Conference) is the preeminent export controlled and ITAR restricted forum in the United States to review and discuss advances in materials for extreme environments. The Conference started in the 1970s as a small informal gathering for government and industry to share information on programs and state-of-the-art technology. Attendance has grown to nearly 500 people while preserving this same objective to share needs and trends in high-temperature and extreme environment materials, and the latest information on advanced materials and manufacturing processes.
The four-day conference program includes two to three parallel sessions per day on topics including thermal protection materials, ceramic matrix composites, carbon-carbon materials, ballistic technologies, hypersonics, and gas turbine engines. Attendees are engineers, scientists, managers, and operational personnel from the turbine engine, aviation, missiles and space, and protective equipment communities, including Navy, Air Force, Army, MDA, NASA, DARPA, FAA, DOE, engine manufacturers, missile and aircraft manufacturers, commercial space companies, and material and component suppliers.
The Preliminary Schedule for the CMS 2025 Conference
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9:30am – 5:00pm |
Prof. Trice will be teaching the Materials for Hypersonics short course again for CMS. The course is intended to introduce the audience to the following topics: History of Hypersonic Flight, the Hypersonic Aerothermodynamic Environment and Important Materials, Introduction to Mechanical Properties of Ceramics, Ceramic Matrix Composites, Thermal Properties of Ceramics, Applications of Thermal and Mechanical Properties, and Radiation Heat Control. A printed out version of the complete note set will be provided. | |||||
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INSTRUCTOR Professor Rodney W. Trice Rodney Trice is full professor of materials engineering at Purdue University. Trice has worked in the hypersonics research area since 2010. He is current research on materials for hypersonic applications encompasses high-temperature high-emissivity coatings for carbon/carbon composites, processing of IR and RF windows, additive manufacture of C/C composites, direct ink write of SiC short fiber/SiC composites, digital light projection of UHTCs and RF window materials, novel energy absorbing ceramics, and powder-processing schemes to fabricate ceramics into complex shapes. | |||||
