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Composites Manufacturing Simulation Takes A Leap Forward

A presentation slide detailing the SIMPROCS ecosystem.

21 April 2023

To mark the closure of the EPSERC funded SIMPROCS Platform grant at the Bristol Composites Institute, a dissemination event was held at the NCC on 20 April.

View of members of the audience at the event.This was well attended by over 50 delegates who came to hear about the state-of-the-art composites manufacturing simulations that had been developed throughout the project.‌

‌A series of talks highlighted successful outcomes, such as over 20 published papers, international collaborations, new software developed and industrial deployment of new process modelling tools.
The event ended with a networking lunch and a display of posters about the research.

Prof. Stephen Hallett, the grant’s principal investigator, said “I am very proud of what we have achieved in this programme. It has‌ been a game changer in our ability to simulat‌e composites manufacturing processes. The world‌-‌class team‌ of researchers have been amazing to work with and have delivered fantastic new capability.”

Further information

The slides from the day's talks can be downloaded at the following links:

Introduction, grant overview, major successes - Stephen Hallett (PDF, 4,738kB)
Pre-preg and AFP process modelling - Jonathan Belnoue (PDF, 8,109kB)
Process Modelling of Textile Composites - Adam Thompson (PDF, 6,127kB)
Industrial use case - from CAD to defect free part - Yi Wang (PDF, 3,707kB)
Early stage new technology - Machine Learning - Anatoly Koptelov (PDF, 6,521kB)

And the posters can be downloaded here:
SIMPROCS Posters (PDF, 7,080kB)

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