The 5th Annual Conference of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Composites for Innovation and Science was held in Queen's Building, at the University of Bristol, on Tuesday 5 April 2016.

• Download the CDT Conference Programme 2016 (PDF, 259kB)
• Download the CDT Conference Poster Booklet 2016 (PDF, 10,132kB)
• Watch the students' presentations on YouTube

Programme

09:00 Tea/Coffee and Posters

Central Design Office, Queen's Building

10:00 Presentations

Pugsley Lecture Theatre, Queen's Building

Professor Paul Weaver, Director of the ACCIS CDT

Introduction and update on CDT activities (PDF, 1,151kB)

Third and Fourth Year CDT Students

Technical presentations on current PhD research

• Advanced curing for on-platform repair of aerospace composite components by external magnetic fields (Giampaolo Ariu (PDF, 1,352kB))
• Two-level aeroelastic tailoring for composite aircraft wings (Muhammad Othman (PDF, 751kB))
• Realising the potential of carbon fibre composites in compression (Jakub Rycerz (PDF, 1,173kB))
• Open-hole response of pseudo-ductile thin-ply angle-ply laminates (Xun Wu (PDF, 831kB))

11:00 Tea/Coffee Break (15 minutes) Pugsley Lecture Theatre Foyer

• Gamification for improved layup (Shashitha Kularatna (PDF, 444kB))
• CMTS (continuous multi-tow shearing) for high-volume production of complex composite parts (Evangelos Zympeloudis (PDF, 1,243kB))
• Detecting kissing bonds with nonlinear ultrasound techniques (Jonathan Alston (PDF, 545kB))
• Understanding the behaviour of tufted sandwich structures in edgewise compression (Jamie Hartley (PDF, 1,266kB))
• Multi-scale characterisation and modelling of tufted composite structures (Camilla Osmiani (PDF, 1,110kB))

Second Year CDT Students

2-minute-2-slide quick-fire project introductions (PDF, 4,970kB)

12:30-13:30 Buffet Lunch and Posters

Central Design Office, Queen’s Building