CMS 2025 AGENDA

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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.


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SUNDAY, JANUARY 26
TRAINING SESSION
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT TRAINING

$300/person

Lunch & Refreshments
will be provided

The workforce development short course will introduce and train participants on the materials science and engineering of ultra-high temperature ceramic (UHTC) materials, ceramic matrix composites (including carbon-carbon composites), as well as some refractory metals to support the design and manufacturing sustainment . This session will be delivered in an ITAR compliant environment and is intended to benefit engineers, technicians, production operators, and quality assurance personnel along with supply chain vendors and subcontractors.

    Topics covered include:
  • History of hypersonic flight and design
  • Hypersonic aerothermodynamics and hypersonic materials challenges
  • Introduction to mechanical properties
  • Thermal properties
  • Applications of thermal and mechanical properties
  • Composites including carbon/carbon and ceramic matrix composites and their manufacture (will include some coverage of metals used in systems)

Participants will receive a full set of notes for the college course on which this short course is based.
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.


Our Sponsors & Partners

Thanks to the following companies for supporting this conference.

  • USACA
  • KRATOS
  • GE
  • Spirit Aerosystems
  • Textum
  • Boeing
  • Ultramet
  • TexTech
  • MRD
  • Kyocera