Location:
Room 23 (second floor, on the right) NYU-Poly Westchester Graduate Center 40 Saw Mill River Road (map)
Hawthorne, New York 10532
ABSTRACT
Composites are a rapidly emerging structural material, particularly in the aerospace industry.
Composites offer numerous engineering advantages including significant
weight savings and the ability to tailor the structure to have different
strengths in different directions in order to effectively handle
directionally dependent loads and stresses. Although the overall
procedure for failure analysis of composites is similar that used for
metals and plastics, many of the detailed steps are very specific
towards composites. This presentation describes the procedure for
failure analysis of composites including fractography.
BIOGRAPHY
Ronald J. Parrington, P.E., FASM is the President of IMR Test
Labs, a full service materials laboratory. Ron is a graduate of
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with BS and MS degrees in Materials
Engineering. He has over 30 years of experience in failure
analysis of metallic and nonmetallic materials, has presented and
published numerous papers on failure analysis, teaches the ASM courses
(Principles of Failure Analysis, Practical Fractography, and
Introduction to Polymers and Polymer Testing), is past chairman of the
ASM International Failure Analysis Committee and the ASM Chapter
Council, and is currently the Chairman of the ASM Materials Education
Foundation Board of Trustees.
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