FEATURE SESSION

NET COMPOSITES - SRP MICRO SESSION

Name: Lucas Morgan
Company: NetComposites

Presentation Title: Self Reinforced Plastics: An Overview

Presentation Content: An overview of current and emerging Self Reinforced Plastics (SRP) technologies and applications. Initial results from 2 current research projects focused on flowable SRPs will be presented.

Name: Andy Fox
Company: Andy Fox boat build

Presentation Title: Self reinforcing thermoplastic composites for Boat building

Presentation Content: A cradle to cradle boat building project. Covering; Material properties, processing methods, structural beam construction and low tech welding methods as well as Future applications in boat building.

FEATURE SESSION

COMPOSITES IN CONSTRUCTION-

Coordinated by:
In conjunction with: Dr Deborah Pullen
Modern Built Environment Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN)
PLUS
 The Network Group for Composites in Construction (NGCC)

Provisional session outline:

• Keynote presentation
• Increasing opportunities for the use of value added composite products in construction
• Positive impact of natural composites on sustainability and environmental impact
• Case studies of exemplars and demonstrator products and buildings
• Cross-sector relevance of manufacturing
• Q &A round up

Lufthansa Resource Techncal Training
Title: Composite Repair – Technician Training for Continuing Airworthiness

There is no doubt that polymer reinforced composites will play an ever increasing role in future material requirements for many industries. The progress to date in their development, manufacture and use has proven them to be a high performance structural material with superior properties and characteristics and a highly valued engineering resource.
A long established safety culture within the aviation industry requires materials used in aircraft construction to be inspectable and repairable. To meet regulation requirements, aircraft operators as well as maintenance and repair organisations (MRO’s) must ensure that all personnel who operate in / around and maintain aircraft must be qualified to do so. That is, they must have the necessary underpinning knowledge and skills to maintain, repair and prevent damage to aircraft systems and structures including fibre reinforced plastics.

Future research and development leading to qualification of these structures for aircraft use must include a third dimension, maintenance and repair competency. At the moment, significant focus for composite engineering, rightly so, concentrates on design and manufacture. Some consideration must also be given to preparing existing and future technicians and engineers for the ongoing maintenance and repair requirements of these structures.

FEATURE LUNCHTIME PRESENTATION

Breaking into NADCAP

How companies can access NADCAP

SECO
Title: Discover the advantage – Jabro Tooling for Composite materials

Discover a new range of tooling solutions for machining carbon composites from one of the worlds leading cutting tool manufacturers. Seco have used their knowledge of aerospace materials to develop a range of tooling specifically designed for machining advanced aerospace composites. Learn how the combination of complex geometries and Seco’s Dura diamond coating technology can provide a performance advantage that is more than able to cope with the abrasive nature of advanced carbon composite materials. This new range will have its official launch at the show.

NET COMPOSITES - NANO MICRO SESSION

Name: Professor Alexander Bismark
Company: Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London

Presentation Title: Nanocomposites: An Overview

Presentation Content: An overview of current trends and recent developments in the field of polymer nanocomposites.

Name: Professor Robert J Young FREng
Company: School of Materials, University of Manchester

Presentation Title: Graphene and Graphene Nanocomposites

Presentation Content: Graphene has a strength of around 130 GPa which makes it the strongest material known. It was first isolated in 2004 and the initial wave of research has concentrated upon its use in electronic applications. It is now recognised that it also offers considerable promise a reinforcement in high-performance nanocomposites. The talk will review the structure and properties of graphene and present the results of recent studies in the field of graphene nanocomposites.

LAP GmbH
Title: COMPOSITE PRO - The digital laser template for composite materials

Since 1984, LAP provides measurement and projection systems based on laser technology for different applications all over the world.

COMPOSITE PRO is a complete system for more working flexibility by using a real client-server configuration, more throughput due to the omission of conventional templates and better management of workflows, more precision (the system works digitally and in real-time), more quality control (the workflow is saved on the PC step by step).

COMPOSITE PRO is designed to meet every industrial challenge in the aerospace industry, wind industry, ship builiding, car racing and many other composites applications. In the aircraft industry LAP laser projectors have been successfully used by major companies such as Airbus and Boeing for years. For the building of the new A350XWB LAP has become the strategic partner of EADS / Airbus.

Airbus will use the COMPOSITE PRO system to manufacture carbon fibre components for wing, fuselage and tail units of the new Airbus A350XWB
to further optimize the efficiency of production.