Wereley, Choi Honored with Outstanding Technical Paper Award at CAMX 2024

Wereley, Choi Honored with Outstanding Technical Paper Award at CAMX 2024

Wereley, Choi Honored with Outstanding Technical Paper Award at CAMX 2024

A 3D-printed example of the team's honeycomb structure with buckling initiators (BIs).
A 3D-printed example of the team's honeycomb structure with buckling initiators (BIs).

Each year, the Composites and Advanced Materials Expo (CAMX) honors exceptional research from students, engineers, and industry professionals that drives the future of composites innovation. This year, out of the more than 140 papers presented at CAMX Assistant Research Scientist Young Choi and Professor Norman Wereley were recognized with a CAMX Outstanding Technical Paper Award.

The CAMX awards address critical topics in the composites and advanced materials industry, spanning business, applications, and research.

Their paper, “Quasi-static Crush of Additively Manufactured Honeycomb Structures with Buckling Initiators,” presented by Wereley, addresses a method to maximize crush efficiency in additively manufactured honeycomb structures used for energy absorption during impact events, such as a hard or crash landing of a helicopter or automobile collision.

The team accomplished this by decreasing the initial peak stress while maintaining the plateau stress via buckling initiators (BIs). BIs are perforations of varying size, shape and location in the honeycomb cell walls. When placing BIs at the top of these honeycomb walls, the team demonstrated an increase in the energy absorption efficiency of over 50%.

These energy absorbing structures could be applied to aerospace and automotive applications for occupant protection because 3D printing allows tailoring of their energy absorption characteristics as a function of body weight. 

The CAMX Expo is North America’s largest composite and advanced materials industry expo and conference program, bringing together all aspects of the world’s composites and advanced materials communities.  

Related Articles:
Edward Eisenstein Named ASBMB 2025 Fellow
MATRIX Lab Hiring Research Development Director
Jenna Mueller Receives 2025 SPIE Early Career Achievement Award
Advancing Rapid Protein Analysis with Electronic Sensing
Erika Moore Gives TED Talk on Advancing Health Equity in Lupus Research
Dutt Receives NSF CAREER Award
New Faculty Spotlight: Alex Xu
Six Clark School Faculty Receive 2024 DURIP Awards
"Rare but Devastating": Maisel Honored for Immunotherapy Research to Treat Deadly Lung Disease in Women
Erika Moore Receives NSF CAREER Award

October 25, 2024


Prev   Next

Current Headlines

Celebrating Asian, Pacific Islander, Desi American (APIDA) Heritage Month and Southwest Asian and North African Heritage Month. 

Celebrating APIDA and SWANA Maryland Engineers

MC2 Researchers Win Privacy Papers Awards for Data Access and AI Legal Insights

Two UMD Companies listed in America’s top Greentech companies of 2025

CEEE Interns Present Analysis of Energy-Saving Opportunities at Two High Schools

ION Storage Systems Continues March Toward Commercialization

Defense Department Invests $1.5M in Projects Investigating Advanced Materials

Fostering Global Collaboration: CRR Welcomes Stakeholders from Japan

News Resources

Return to Newsroom

Search News

Archived News

Events Resources

Events Calendar