8th Annual Conference of the CDT in Advanced Composites for Innovation and Science

16 April 2019, 9.00 AM - 16 April 2019, 1.30 PM

Bill Brown Design Suite, Queen's Building, University of Bristol

The 8th Annual Conference of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Composites for Innovation and Science was held on Tuesday 16 April 2019, in the Bill Brown Design Suite, Queen's Building, at the University of Bristol.

Programme

10:00 Presentations

Third and Fourth Year CDT Students
Technical presentations on current PhD research

Suppressing Composite Delamination through Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes (Rob Worboys - Worboys Conference Presentation 2019 (PDF, 2,669kB))
Atomic oxygen degradation mechanisms of epoxy composites for space applications (Desmond He - He Conference Presentation 2019 (PDF, 2,071kB))
Development of resin and curing process for wind turbine blades (Beth Russell - Russell Conference Presentation 2019 (PDF, 998kB))
Variable-kinematics shell model: Application to delamination analysis (Aewis Hii - Hii Conference Presentation 2019 (PDF, 1,844kB))
Experimental validation of cross-sectional bend-twist coupling stiffness terms for beam modelling (Vincent Maes - Maes Conference Presentation 2019 (PDF, 1,428kB))
Optimisation of composite laminate stacking sequences (Noemie Fedon - Fedon Conference Presentation 2019 (PDF, 1,285kB))

11:00 Tea/Coffee Break (15 minutes)

Exploiting thin-ply materials to establish controlled failure in carbon fibre composites (Tamas Rev - Rev Conference Presentation 2019 (PDF, 1,281kB))
WrapToR composite truss structures (Chris Hunt - Hunt Conference Presentation 2019 (PDF, 1,591kB))
Manufacture and Ballistic Testing of sheared UHMWPE composite plates (Behjat Ansari - presentation not available due to industry clearance)
Switchable Stiffness Morphing Aerostructures using Granular Jamming (David Brigido - Brigido Conference Presentation 2019 (PDF, 2,712kB))
Accurate and efficient wind blade modelling using non-linear, high-order beam elements (Sam Scott - Scott Conference Presentation 2019 (PDF, 920kB))
Modal nudging of aerospace structures (Olivia Leao - Leao Conference Presentation 2019 (PDF, 1,489kB))
Thermally-actuated composite helical lattices: prediction and validation (Jonathan Stacey - Stacey Conference Presentation 2019 (PDF, 1,612kB))

Second Year CDT Students
Quickfire Conference Presentation 2019 (PDF, 4,422kB)

Research represents all three themes of the CDT with wide scope. E.g., development of new functional materials (nanodiamond composites, thermal management), innovative design strategies (aeroelastically tailored wind turbine blades, tubular origami, morphing aerostructures), and new manufacturing techniques (WrapToR composite truss structures, ultra thin laminates for space applications)