Affiliated faculty

Mauricio V. Donadon (Professor, ITA)

Evaldo José Corat (Researcher, INPE)

Fabio Silva (Engineer, Dr., EMBRAER)

Brian Wardle (Professor, MIT-USA)

Students

Thyago Santos Braga (Doctoral student, ITA)

Funding source

CNPq and EMBRAER

Description

The poor properties in the through thickness direction make composite structures particularly made of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) susceptible to low velocity impact damage. The ASRG-ITA has been working in collaboration with INPE and MIT in the development of an industrial process to produce Nano-structured laminates in order to improve through-the-thickness properties of composites. The idea of this research is also to benefit from the piezoresistive properties of CNTs in order to design sensors for structural health monitoring