Advanced Composites Centre for

Innovation and Science

7th ANNUAL CONFERENCE

19th September 2014

www.bris.ac.uk/composites

Programme • Introduction and update on ACCIS activities

Professor Michael Wisnom, ACCIS Director • The manufacturing of complex geometries - automation or manual forming as a

route forward? Dr Carwyn Ward, Lecturer in Composites Design, Processing and Manufacture

• Axiomatic design for innovative composite products and manufacture Dr Eric Kim, Lecturer in Composites Design, Processing and Manufacture

• Multi-stable cylindrical lattices Dr Alberto Pirrera, Lecturer in Composites Structures

• Progress in 3D non-destructive characterisation of composites – underpinning future leaner composite designs Professor Robert Smith, Professor of NDT and High Value Manufacturing

• Improved aircraft wing designs using composite aeroelastic tailoring Professor Jonathan Cooper, Royal Academy of Engineering Airbus Sir George White Chair of Aerospace Engineering

• Self healing – application in Engineering Professor Ian Bond, Professor and Head of the Department of Aerospace Engineering

• One minute presentations by ACCIS researchers Chaired by Dr Galal Mohamed, Research Assistant in Analysis of Composite Materials and Structures

• 12.30 – 14.00 Buffet lunch, posters and lab tours

Advanced Composites Centre for Innovation and Science

• Established in 2007 • Brings together composites

research across University • Based in Engineering, linked to

Science and Medicine • Focus for collaboration between

academia and industry • ACCIS Vision: A world leading centre for

composites education and research, combining cutting edge fundamental science with strong industrial links for exploitation and technology transfer

Undercarriage stay

CDT Design, Build, Test

Modelling of carbon nanotube structure

ACCIS Staff News

• Professor Kevin Potter was appointed as NCC Professor in Composite Manufacture, spending 2 days per week at NCC and 3 days in ACCIS

• Dr Eric Kim, Lecturer in Composite Design, Processing

& Manufacture from Aug 2014

• Dr Carwyn Ward, Lecturer in Composites Design,

Processing and Manufacture from Aug 2014

• Dr Alberto Pirrera, Lecturer in Composites Structures

ACCIS Staff News cont.

• Dr Mark Schenk, Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering, from Oct 2014

• Alison Denny, ACCIS and UTC Project Manager

(maternity cover) • Allison McIntosh-Smith, ACCIS Senior Administrator

and Project Coordinator (job share)

Special Award

• Dr Richard Trask, Reader in Multifunctional Materials, has been awarded a five-year EPSRC Engineering Fellowship for Growth “Morphogenesis Manufacturing: Smart Materials with Programmed Transformations”

• Partnership with GKN, Thomas Swan, Designers

at 'Plot', NCC, Dstl, EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Additive Manufacturing at Nottingham

ACCIS Research Themes

• Multifunctional Composites and Novel Microstructures

• Design, Analysis and

Failure • Intelligent Structures • Composites

Processing and Characterisation

Embedded fibres for sensing, self healing

Predicting damage at notches

Morphing aerofoil

Fibre waviness in curved composite

Partnerships • CIMComp - EPSRC Centre for Innovative

Manufacturing in Composites led by Nottingham with Cranfield and Manchester – Successful mid-term review with

research “of a high scientific quality, with good industrial impact”

• HiPerDuCT Programme Grant with Imperial College on High Performance Ductile Composites Technology

• Industrial partnerships with Rolls-Royce Vestas, Airbus, Agusta Westland

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EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training • £4.9m of renewed funding from the EPSRC • Significant industrial support • Conference paper prizes: Broderick Coburn,

Rainer Groh, Marc Scholz, Matthew Such • First cohort of graduates in high demand –

approx. 50/50 split academia/industry • CDT Industry engagement programme • Sixth cohort of PhD students starting

September 22nd • 4th annual CDT conference: 14th April 2015

Call for PhD project proposals now open - Deadline Friday 24th October 2014 - See news item on the ACCIS website

New CDT student

videos go live!

MSc in ADVANCED COMPOSITES

The MSc programme in Advanced Composites offers a world class education with in-depth theoretical understanding and practical knowledge of advanced composite materials

Applications open to start MSc from Oct 2015 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/2015/eng/msc-adv-composites/ Intake 4-5 MSc students per year Opportunities: Extended project work with industry for 5 to 6 months

Contact : Dr Sameer S Rahatekar sameer.rahatekar@bristol.ac.uk

EPSRC Industrial Doctorate Centre

• A further £3.7m awarded to Bristol in addition to initial £3.8m

• 70+ four-year EngDs in composites manufacture • Collaboration (Bristol, Cranfield, Manchester, Nottingham) • Integral activity of CIMComp; led by Bristol; Research

Engineer base at NCC; Director is Prof. Ivana Partridge • Industry-led projects; specialist technical component • Current projects sponsored by Rolls-Royce, Jaguar Land

Rover, Hexcel and NCC • Open to project proposals at any time

ACCIS PhD Graduates • Fabio Agnese - Enhanced Vibration Damping

Materials and Structures for Wind Blade Vibration Inspired from Auxetic Configurations

• Alex Brinkmeyer- Time-Dependent Bistable Morphing Structures

• James Lightfoot - Mechanisms of Defect Formation in Carbon Fibre Composites

• Joseph Mills-Brown - High Temperature Composite Materials and Structures

• John Williams - Plasma Treatment of Carbon Nanotubes and Carbon Fibre for use in Composite Materials

• Khong Wui Gan - Effect of High Through- Thickness Compression on Composite Failure

• Joel Ross - Local and Global Load Responses of a Traffic Bridge Comprising GFRP Cellular Decking

(L-R) Khong Wui Gan, Joseph Mills-Brown,

James Lightfoot, Alex Brinkmeyer,

John Williams

Graduation Day January 2014

ACCIS PhD Graduates cont. • Damien Pain - Detection and Quantification of Fibre Waviness

in Composite Laminates using Ultrasonic Array • Sepideh Vali-Shariatpanahi - Damage Mechanisms Arising

from Advanced Fasteners for Aerospace • Neil Buckney - Optimisation of Wind

Turbine Blade Structural Topology • Alex Shaw - Vibration Isolation Utilising the

Nonlinear deformation of Anisotropic Plates • Daniel Thompson - Damage Modelling

and Prognosis in Composite Materials • Matt O’Donnell - Exploiting Non-

Symmetry in Composite Laminates • Oliver Nixon-Pearson - An Investigation

into the Fatigue Damage Development in Open and Bolted-Hole Composite Laminates

(L-R) Matt O’Donnell, Alex Shaw, Daniel

Thompson, Oliver Nixon-Pearson, Neil Buckney

Graduation Day July 2014

• Manufacturing of High Performance Cellulose Fibres to Replace

Glass Fibres and non-Renewable Precursors of Carbon fibres – Kevin Potter & Sameer Rahatekar in collaboration with Exeter and Imperial (EPSRC) Value: £2.1m

• Auxetic Foams for Dynamic Load Alleviation in MS Patients – Fabrizio Scarpa (Elizabeth Blackwell SARTRE)

• Robustness-Performance Optimisation for Automated Composites Manufacture – Kevin Potter, Cranfield, Nottingham (EPSRC) Value: £138k

• New Generation of Manufacturing Technologies: Liquid Print of Composite Matrices - Dmitry Ivanov (EPSRC) Value: £125k

• Development of Thermally Actuated High Temperature Composite Morphing Concepts Eric Eckstein and Paul Weaver (EOARD) Value: $141.5k

• Equipment grant to support the Centres for Doctoral Training - Ivana Partridge, Paul Weaver (EPSRC) Value: £700k

New Projects

Composite with printed matrix Dry preform

National Composites Centre Links • NCC chair in Composites

Manufacturing and Design • Phase II building completed • Includes Training and Innovation

Centre • ACCIS will have greater presence • Base for IDC research engineers • Process monitoring equipment to

be located at NCC, available to other universities via CIMComp

Conferences in Bristol • Composites 2015 - 5th

ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on The Mechanical Response of Composites, 7-9 September 2015, co-chaired by Prof. Stephen Hallett www.composites2015.info

• ICMAC 2015 - International Conference on Manufacturing of Advanced Composites 24-25 June 2015, chaired by Prof. Kevin Potter www.icmac2015.org

Future Opportunities • Academic and industrial collaborations, secondments • Major new research programmes through TSB, MoD,

EPSRC and Horizon 2020 initiatives • Blue skies PhDs and initial studies via CDT, MEng projects • Projects in EngD centre in composites manufacture • EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account • Knowledge Transfer Partnerships • Collaborations through the National Composites Centre