ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM WORKSHOP ON COMPOSITES IN CIVIL APPLICATIONS Advanced Technology Program (ATP) Workshop on Composites in Civil Applications June 17-18, 1998 National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Md. U.S. Department of Commerce Technology Administration National Institute of Standards and Technology As part of the Commerce Department's Technology Administration, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) works to promote U.S. economic growth by working with industry to develop and apply technology, measurements, and standards. NIST carries out its mission through a portfolio of four major programs: -- Measurement and Standards Laboratories that provide technical leadership for vital components of the nation's technology infrastructure needed by U.S. industry to continually improve its products and services; -- a rigorously competitive Advanced Technology Program providing cost-shared awards to industry for development of high-risk, enabling technologies with broad economic potential; -- a grassroots ManufacturingExtension Partnership with a nationwide network of local centers offering technical and business assistance to smaller manufacturers; and -a highly visible quality outreach program associated with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award that recognizes continuous improvements in quality management by U.S. manufacturers and service companies. In fiscal year 1998, NIST is operating on a budget of about $790 million with nearly 3,300 staff members at its sites in Gaithersburg, Md., and Boulder, Colo. News and general information about NIST programs and services are available on the World Wide Web at http://www.nist.gov, or call General Inquiries at (301) 975-3058 or e-mail: inquiries@nist.gov. About the Advanced Technology Program NIST's Advanced Technology Program (ATP) provides competitive, cost-shared awards for industry to develop high-risk, enabling technologies with broad-based economic benefit. ATP seeks to help industry fill the gap between basic research and product development, and invest in technology that would not be developed in a competitive time frame without government cost-sharing. Along with general competitions which are open to proposals from all technical areas, ATP is also funding a series of focused programs with well-defined research and business goals. Purpose The goals of this workshop are: 1) to share progress made on ATP-funded composite projects in civil infrastructure and offshore oil production; and 2) to discuss rescoping the Manufacturing Composite Structures program toward Composites in Civil Applications as a new focused program. The new program would advance composite materials technologies used within civil/construction and chemical/petrochemical applications through cost-shared partnerships. The ATP has a portfolio of industry-led projects involving advanced materials and composite structures. Many of these projects were initiated through two solicitations (94-02 and 95-11) for the focused program, Manufacturing Composite Structures. Including two General Competitionsand these focused program solicitations, ATP currently supports 24 industry-led composite projects with estimated federal funds of over $65 million and over $70 million of cost- shared industry funds committed over 3-5 years. The published goals of this focused program were to promote U.S. economic growth by supporting sustained, high-risk research and development which will accelerate the use of structural polymer composites in surface transportation, civil infrastructure, and offshore oil production. Development of user-friendly integrated design simulation methodologies, sensor monitoring technologies in manufacturing processes and performance, and development of cost-effective commercial manufacturing processes were the three primary goals of the first two solicitations. Four years later, Infrastructure and Offshore Exploration & Production, as well as Industrial Facilities, are emerging into the new era for composites in civil applications. There appears to be diminished interest in the automotivefield based on ATP's feedback from industry. We hope this workshop can help coalesce industry to speed up acceptance of the technology currently under development and further advance the start up of a new industry. During the rescoping parts of this workshop we will discuss the three major fields: INFRASTRUCTURE, INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES, AND OFFSHORE E&P. The science and technology areas that we will target are: Materials Development, Test Evaluation, Manufacturing/Fabrication, Design Methodology, New Construction, Economics/Lifecycle Cost, and Health/Reliability Monitoring. People interested in other areas of composite technology are welcome, however, the areas noted above represent the areas that appear to have the most current interest. Each focused program has its unique advantages and an effective way of achieving more synergy and leverage in specific areas. A focused program on average has a first year ATP budget contribution of $8-10 million that typically represents the start of a 3-5 year federal plus industry investment of between $50-70 million total. This amount of funding provides industry with a good opportunity to address technical challenges in technology and helps industry move more quickly to exploit the new technology in commercialization applications. The focused programs must have well-defined research and business goals and are selected on the basis of four major criteria: potential for U.S. economic benefit, good technical ideas, strong industry commitment, and the opportunity for ATP funds to make a significant difference. Ten technical presentations will be given by the ATP awardees on June 17, and a panel discussion session will take place in the morning on June 18. KEY AUDIENCE Composites/materials, civil/construction, chemical/petrochemical industries. Contacts Registration Contact Tammie Grice NIST Bldg. 101, Rm. B116 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0001 Telephone: (301) 975-3883 Fax: (301) 948-2067 Email: tammie.grice@nist.gov Technical Information Dr. H. Felix Wu Program ManagerOffice of Chemical and Biomedical Technology Advanced Technology Program NIST Bldg. 101, Rm. A225 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0001 Telephone: (301) 975-4685 Fax: (301) 548-1087 Email: felix.wu@nist.gov Additional Information For additional general information, or to add your name to the ATP mailing list, please contact the ATP:Hotline: 800-ATP-FUND, or(800-287-3863)Worldwide Web: http://www.atp.nist.gov Email: atp@nist.gov Transportation Super Shuttle, 1-800-258-3826, offers commercial van service from Baltimore-Washington International, Dulles International, and Ronald Reagan Washington National airports to the Gaithersburg area. Call for reservations. The Washington Metro system has subway service to Gaithersburg and can be boarded at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Take the Yellow Line train marked "Mount Vernon Square" to Gallery Place and transfer to the Red Line train marked "Shady Grove" to the Shady Grove station in Gaithersburg. Service is every six to fifteen minutes, depending on thetime of day. Travel time from Ronald Reagan Washington to Shady Grove is approximately 50 minutes. Taxis are available from the Shady Grove Metro station to area hotels. A NIST shuttle van operates for official visitors and conference attendees from the Shady Grove Metro station to NIST. The van leaves the Shady Grove station on the quarter and three-quarter hour (e.g., 8:15, 8:45...4:45, 5:15) from the east side parking lot. Driving Directions To reach the Gaithersburg Holiday Inn: Traveling north on I-270: take Exit 11, Rt. 124 East, Montgomery Village Avenue. At the second traffic light, turn left onto Rt. 355. The hotel will be your first right. Traveling south on I-270: use Exit 11A and follow the same directions. To reach NIST: Traveling north on I-270: take Exit 10, Rt. 117 West, Clopper Road. At the first light on Clopper Road, turn left onto the NIST grounds. Traveling south on I-270: take Exit 11B, Rt. 124 West, Quince Orchard Road. At the second light turn left onto Clopper Road. At the next light, turn right onto the NIST grounds. To reach the Administration Building, turn left after passing the guard office. Signs will direct you to visitor parking. General Information Location The workshop will be held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Administration Building (101) Green Auditorium, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Gaithersburg is approximately 25 miles northwest of Washington, D.C. Registration The registration fee of $125 per person includes workshop materials, coffee breaks, one lunch, and a dinner. The enclosed registration form must be received by Wednesday, June 3, 1998, for your name to appear on the preliminary participant's list. All requests for cancellation and refund must be submitted to Lori Phillips, in writing, prior to June 3. Registration can be done electronically at::https://sales.nist.gov/conf/secure/CONF38/conf_register.htm Accommodations Workshop registration does not include your hotel reservation. A block of rooms has been reserved at the Gaithersburg Holiday Inn, (301) 948-8900, at a rate of $85, single or double, plus 12% tax. To register for a room, please send the enclosed hotel reservation form directly to the hotel, no later than Tueday, June 2, 1998. After that date, the rooms will be released for general sale at the prevailing rates of the hotel. If you call in your reservation, please refer to the "NIST/ATP Workshop." Coffee Breaks and Lunch Refreshments will be provided during coffee breaks. Lunch will be provided on the first day. Social Event In order to provide an opportunity for informal interaction, a cash-bar reception, followed by dinner will be held on June 17 at the Gaithersburg Holiday Inn, beginning at 4:30 p.m. The featured dinner speaker is Joseph Toole, Director Office of Technology Applications, FHWA Agenda Wednesday, June 17 8 a.m. Registration 9 a.m. Opening Session and Welcome, Dr. Lura Powell, Director of ATP Technical Presentations Morning Session: Civil Infrastructure Chair: Dr. Vistasp Karbhari, University of California at San Diego Co-Chair: Dr. Abdul-Hamid Zureick, Georgia Institute of Technology 9:15 a.m. Development of a Composite Transmission Tower and Associated Manufacturing Process, David Johnson, Ebert Composites Corporation, San Diego, CA 9:45 a.m. Sensors for Monitoring Carbon Composite Cure and Resin Content Measurement in Carbon Prepreg Tow for Infrastructure Applications, Dr. Suresh Menon, XXsys Technologies, Inc., San Diego, CA 10:15 a.m. Development of a Composite Double Web I-Beam for Infrastructure Applications, Clint Smith, Strongwell Corporation, Bristol, VA 10:45 a.m. Break 11:15 a.m. Automating SCRIMP for Large Composite Structures, Michael Just and Scott Hemphill, Hardcore DuPont Composites, LLC, New Castle, DE 11:45 a.m. Development of User-Friendly Integrated Design Simulation Methodologies for Infrastructure Applications, Dr. Gilbert Hegemier, University of California, San Diego, CA. 12:15 p.m. Lunch Afternoon Session: Offshore E&P Chair: Dr. Him Lo, Shell E&P Co-Chair: Karl Muriby, ABB Vetco Gray Inc. 1:30 p.m. The Application of Advanced Composite Technology to Marine Drilling Riser Systems, William Andersen, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA; Thomas Sweeney, ABBVetco Gray Inc. 2 p.m. Advances in Manufacturing Technology for Continuous Composite Tubing, Dr. Thomas Walsh, Hydril Company, Houston, TX 2:30 p.m. Innovative Development of Composite Pipe Joining/Fitting Technology for Advanced Composite Pipe Systems, Richard Lea, Specialty Plastics, Inc., Baton Rouge, LA 3 p.m. Break 3:30 p.m. Development and Qualification of Composite Production Riser, Donald Baldwin and Douglas Johnson, Lincoln Composites, Inc., Lincoln, NE; Dr. Joseph Fischer, Shell E&P, Houston, TX 4 p.m. Design Technology and Reliability Engineering for Composite Structures in Offshore E&P, Dr. Su Su Wang, CEAC, University of Houston, Houston, TX 4:30 p.m. Reception and social networking 6:30 p.m. Dinner and Presentation, Joseph Toole, Director, Office of Technology Applications, FHWA AgendaThursday, June 18 9 a.m. ATP Focused Program Selection, Dr. H. Felix Wu, ATP 9:30 a.m. Panel Discussion Moderator: Dr. Donald Hunston, NIST Jim Roberts, Director of Caltrans, Ben Tang, Structural Engineer, FHWA, Philip Richter, Sr. Technical Director, Fluor Daniel, Dr. Joseph Fischer, Research Advisor, Shell E&P Dr. Jerry Williams, Director of Industry Programs, CEAC, University of Houston Rosalie Ruegg, Director, Economic Assessment Office, ATP Questions for Panel and Audience Discussion What are the next technical challenges from previous focused programs? How can technology be expedited to the U.S. industry and market? How important are composites to the development of the three major fields: infrastructure, Industrial Facilities, and Offshore E&P? How important is NIST/ATP funding for the technology to be ready in the first decade of the 21st century? What ways are available to speed up the acceptance of using composite materials in the aforementioned three major fields? 11:30 a.m. Wrap-up, Dr. H. Felix Wu, ATP 11:45 a.m. Adjourn Hotel Reservation Please complete form and return by June 2, 1998, to: Gaithersburg Holiday Inn 2 Montgomery Village Ave. Gaithersburg, Md. 20879 or Telephone: (301) 948-8900 or Fax: (301) 258-1940 Register for Conference Please complete form and return by June 2, 1998, to: NIST Office of the Comptroller Bldg. 101, Rm. A807 Gaithersburg, Md. 20899-0001 or Fax to: Tammie Grice (301) 948-2067 Registration ATP Workshop on Composites in Civil Applications June 17-18, 1998 last name first name title organization address room or mail code city, state, zip country telephone facsimile email services REGISTRATION FEE: $125 Form of Payment: Check enclosed, payable to: NIST/ATP Workshop Checks from outside the U.S.A. should be written on a U.S.A. bank. MasterCard VISA Discover American Express Card No. Expiration Date Authorized Signature Purchase Order No. / Training Form (Enclose a copy or provide one on-site at registration; faxed copy unacceptable.) 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