Track 1: Armor and Defense Systems

Track 2: Thermal Systems

7:30 am - 8:30 am Registration and Coffee

8:30 am – 10:00 am At the Forefront of Vehicle Armor Technology

Learn the theories behind the design of an opaque armor solution tailored to military vehicle specifications. This session will discuss design considerations such as weight, cost, and threat-level requirements, as these are all essential factors developing armor systems. This class will also delve into the use of crucial materials such as steel, aluminum, composites, and many other force protection means. Delegates will be able to take home a better understanding of the necessary steps to be more responsive to tight timeframes while delivering top-quality designs and solutions.

How you will benefit:

• Maximize your understanding of innovative and functional armor designs
• Obtain a new perspective on design, manufacture, and installation techniques of vehicle armor
• Learn how to efficiently respond to protection requirements of the warfighter and his vehicle

What you will learn about:

• Laminating processes
• High performance bonding assemblies
• Ballistic and blast resistant glass applications

Session Leader:

John Rutledge
Business Development
American Defense Systems Inc.

10:00 am – 11:30 am Review of Lightweight Armor Solutions for Emerging Unconventional Threats

During the past five years, unconventional threats have emerged at a rapid pace demanding/forcing material suppliers and armor designers to come up with solutions faster than ever before. Vehicle manufacturers have encountered a variety of obstacles on the up armoring of tactical vehicles as weight increments became unsustainable. The balance between operational efficiency and protective capabilities has become a priority and a challenge.

In this session, discover the initiatives set forth that have played an integral part in the innovation and development of light armor solutions. A strong emphasis has been placed on strengthening the internal "know how" and expertise to support the Defense Industry with innovative solutions. This session entails an in-depth discussion regarding the path taken to achieve theses solutions by presenting relevant information and real-world scenarios.

How you will benefit:

• Obtain the latest on up-armor technologies
• Take part in an in-depth discussion on operational efficiency
• Discover how to obtain the balance between effective yet lightweight armor solutions

What you will learn about:

• Requirements and solutions behind armor design
• Operational efficiency solutions
• Protective capabilities

Session Leaders:

Mark Haft
Application Manager for Vehicle Protection
DSM Dyneema

David Cordova
Vice President for Business Development
DSM Dyneema, Life Protection Americas

11:30 am - 12:30 pm Lunch

12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Polymer Composite Materials and their Potential for Lightweight Military Vehicles

This session will cover polymeric composites materials, their constituents, manufacturing and properties. Topics to be addressed include; advantages of composites for reducing structural weight; methods for manufacturing composites materials, design for blast resistance and durability, and adding multifunctionality to composites.

What you will learn about:

• Composite prepreg production • Interphase structure-composite property relationships • Quantification of fiber-matrix interphase structures in thermoset and thermoplastic composites

Session Leaders:

Professor Albert Loos
Professor Dahsin Liu
Professor Lawrence Drzal

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Composite Vehicle Research Center,
Michigan State University

2:30 pm – 4:30 pm LW25 System Program Overview

Roger O’Dell
Engineering and Technology Director
ATK

7:30 am - 8:30 am Registration and Coffee

8:30 am – 11:30 am Cooling, Heating and Power (CHP) Systems and Optimization of Thermal Systems as Applied to Lightweight Vehicles

Thermal management and power supply systems are expected to meet two major design objectives: performance and cost. In mobile applications, a third objective is equally or even more important: overall size. These conflicting objectives pose design challenges that can be addressed very effectively with the aid of software that searchers systematically for optimum designs. This session will discuss approaches will that lead to very costeffective, efficient and compact design solutions using multi-objective, multi-scale genetic algorithms.

How you will benefit:

• Understand of the power of optimization
• Obtain the ability to design better thermal systems with less engineering effort

What you will learn about:

• Challenges and opportunities for integrated thermal management systems
• Advanced simulation methods for such systems
• Integration of CFD, design of experiments, meta modeling, and genetic algorithms

Session Leader:

Reinhard Radermacher
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and
Director of the Center for Environmental Energy Engineering (CEEE)
University of Maryland

11:30 am - 12:30 pm Lunch

12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Thermal Control in Military Ground Vehicles

Improved thermal systems are necessary for the efficient operation of lightweight vehicles in harsh environments. The operation of thermal systems requires a significant amount of energy, which oftentimes results in adverse effects on vehicle performance. In order to provide the warfighter with the level of comfort that they demand in an energyefficient manner, innovative approaches must be developed. This session will discuss the different considerations an engineer must face when taking into account vehicle power requirements, warfighter safety, and extreme conditions in various environments.

How you will benefit:

• Gain insight into design challenges for cooling systems under harsh environments
• Find out the latest on engine cooling and heat transfer in engines
• Discover the latest technologies in climate control

What you will learn about:

• Thermal control of electronics
• Thermal contact resistance
• Engine cooling, transmission, and power steering

Session Leader:

Jay Ochterbeck
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Clemson University

2:30 pm – 4:30 pm Thermal Management and Heat Transfer Fluids

Thermal management is critical to the performance and life of onboard computing systems. Meanwhile, conventional fluids have inherently poor thermal properties. Mechanical engineers therefore need to consider thermal issues as early as the first phases of design and development. Other factors that need to be considered when designing and developing products include improved heat sink designs, advanced thermal design techniques, but more importantly, heat transfer fluids. This session will therefore delve into the details of nanoemulsion fluids, including how they will benefit the overall process of manufacturing and operating onboard computing systems for lightweight vehicles.

How you will benefit:

• Obtain more information on the technical causes of electronic fires
• Find out more about the beneficial properties of nanoemulsion fluids

What you will learn about:

• Conventional nanofluids
• Suspensions of liquid nanodroplets
• Thermal properties of nanoemulsions

Session Leader:

Bao Yang
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland