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Resin Infusion Technology - Webcast Seminar

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Summary

Date: Tuesday November 9, 2004
Time: Noon to 3 p.m., central
Format: Interactive Webcast via WebTrain

Resin Infusion Technology is one of the leading composites processing technologies that is used to fabricate complex composite components and structures for aerospace, space, and commercial advanced composites products.

On Tuesday November 9, 2004, from noon to 3pm CDT, the National Center for Advanced Manufacturing (NCAM) will hold a Webcast Seminar entitled Resin Infusion Technology. The seminar will be webcast from NCAM’s site at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans, Louisiana and is sponsored jointly by NASA Engineering Training (NET) and NCAM.

This 3-hour intensive overview will include coverage of advances in resin technology and reinforcement preforms, description of different infusion processes (RTM, VARTM, SCRIMP, RFI, RARTM, etc.), examples of critical processing variables, tooling approaches and numerous resin infusion applications in various composite markets.

The seminar will be presented by Dr. Scott W. Beckwith, an active manufacturing consultant specializing in resin infusion processes, filament winding, and composites processing, who is President of BTG Composites LLC. He is SAMPE's International Technical Director and previously served on SAMPE’s Executive Cabinet. He is a SAMPE Fellow, and the 1999 recipient of the SACMA Materials Leadership Award and the 1996 SME "Jud" Hall Composites Manufacturing Award. Dr. Beckwith has over 250 technical publications and has actively provided composites design, processing, manufacturing, testing and training services for over 35 years to the advanced composites and FRP industry. He has served extensively as an expert witness in numerous technology cases.

Registration is open to the first 500 sites and to employees of U.S. based companies only. Registration is FREE to employees of NASA, MAF and members of the UNO community. Cost for all others is $50.