Government Space Research
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Broader Impacts
My primary mission with government research is to develop and further technology that will benefit humanity and the planet we share. Through the lens of sustainability, I focused my efforts on reusable space structures for exploration sustainability. See below for an overview of my main areas of contribution, and learn more by clinking the documentation links.
NASA Langley Research Center
Machine Learning Methods for Determining Viscoelastic Properties of Polymer Composites
Fall 2020
During my second internship at NASA Langley Research Center, I researched and developed a variety of modeling techniques to predict time-dependent thermomechanical properties of polymer composites. The main parameter of concern was the relaxation behavior of ultra-thin carbon fiber-reinforced polymer composites for the intended application of deployable space structures. The models I developed were both implicit (machine learning, utilizing Gaussian Process Regression) and explicit (mathematical, phenomenological viscoplastic model).
Low Creep / Low Relaxation Thermoplastic Polymer Composites for Deployable Space Structures
Spring 2020
While at NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC), I spent 16 weeks fully immersed in materials science and aerospace engineering. I researched and developed 4 novel carbon fiber-reinforced thermoplastic materials for the application of deployable space structures, the most notable being solar sail spacecraft boom systems. The attached presentation is the Exit Control approved version of my findings (note: not all research done was approved by NASA Exit Control for pubic viewing, thus the presentation is a snapshot of the work I did).
