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Contact Information
David Ferrill, Ph.D.
(210) 522-6082
dferrill@swri.org
Cynthia Dinwiddie, Ph.D.
(210) 522-6085
cdinwiddie@swri.org
Image Credit: NASA/JPL–Caltech
Image of the Moon
To address the challenges of aerospace applications, SwRI staff develop techniques to characterize material properties of advanced composites.
The growing space and planetary sciences program in the Geosciences and Engineering Division of Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) offers expertise in the following areas:
- Planetary geosciences
- High-temperature oxidation and corrosion mitigation for exploration vehicles
- Protective coatings for exploration vehicles
- Infrastructure engineering for planetary exploration
- Geotechnical engineering for in situ resource utilization
- High-temperature models of alloy behavior
- Computational fluid dynamics
Related Terminology
planetary geology • high-temperature oxidation • corrosion mitigation • exploration vehicles • protective coatings • infrastructure engineering • planetary exploration • geotechnical engineering • micromechanical analyses • structural reliability • structural life prediction
