The 27th High Temple Workshop was held at the Hilton Sedona Resort and Spa in Sedona, Arizona.  Once again the workshop was well attended with well over 100 people participating.  The University of Dayton Research Institute's (UDRI) Mr.  Dan McCray was once again responsible for administering a very well run and successful workshop.  Special thanks are due to the companies that sponsored the social events that facilitate information exchange in a relaxed atmosphere.  Sherwood Advanced Composite Technologies sponsored the opening reception.  Both Canyon Composites and the Maverick Corporation made the Tuesday night dinner possible.  The Wednesday social hour was compliments of Cytec Carbon Fibers LLC and Cytec Engineered Materials. 

The technical program had 33 papers over a wide range of high temperature polymer topics.  During the NASA overview, Michael A.  Meador described the restructuring implications at NASA highlighting the development of generic technologies that support classes of vehicles.  Dr.  Meador focused on nano-composite work including exfoliated graphite and functionalized graphene reinforcements.  Mary Ann White from ATK presented a paper describing promising results for an automated fiber placement of BMI and higher temperature composite materials.  In the modeling session, Maciej S.  Kumosa presented an aging model for composites.  Some of the key findings from the experimental work include stress relaxation in PMR-15 at elevated temperature substantially reduces aging stresses in the composite and the aging stresses inside the tows were much smaller than the cooling stresses after the manufacturing cycle.  Matt Thompson of Vanguard Composites Group presented a paper for a low cost, repeatable manufacturing process for an integral heatshield and substructure for the THAAD kill vehicle. 

For a second straight year Dr.  William McCormack presented a historical talk developed from his expertise and past high temple presentations available through this database.  This year, Bill discussed process development for high temperature engine components.  Dr.  Thomas K.  Tsotsis from Boeing presented research on using Poly p-phenylenes as a processable polymer resins for structural composites with high thermal stability and service temperatures.  Lt Brian Pesta from the Air Force Materials Directorate described the use of Organic Layered Silicate to modify AFR resin variants.  The goal of this research is to reduce weight by replacing titanium substructure with high temperature polymer matrix composites in applications with sustained service temperatures over 600 F.  Preliminary results indicate a 50 F increase in the glass transition temperature.