Advanced Composites Centre for
Innovation and Science
9th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
13th September 2016
www.bris.ac.uk/composites
Morning Programme• Michael Wisnom: ACCIS Director & Professor of Aerospace Structures
Introduction and update on ACCIS activities • Special Guest Speaker: Prof Ignaas Verpoest, KU Leuven
Recent developments in toughening of composites • Dr Valeska Ting: Reader in Smart Nanomaterials
Nanoporous material composites: designing for functionality • Dr Byung Chul Kim: Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering
New approaches in composites manufacture • Professor Stephen Hallett: Professor in Composite Structures
Understanding and predicting wrinkle defect formation • Dr Wendel Sebastian: Reader in Structural Engineering
Testing of Advanced Composite Bridge Decks • Professor Kevin Potter: Professor of Composites Manufacture
Where next for Design for Manufacturing in Composites • One minute presentations by ACCIS researchers Chaired by Dr Marco Longana
• 12:15—13:30 Lunch and Poster Display
• 13:30 —15:30 NCC Presentations
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
Aerofoil CDT Design, Build, Test
High performance polymer matrices
ACCIS New Academic Staff
Dr. Valeska Ting
Reader in Smart Nanomaterials– Development and testing of functional
nanoporous materials– Alternative energy generation and
storage– Lightweight and smart composites
ACCIS Research Themes
• Multifunctional Composites and Novel Microstructures
• Design, Analysis and Failure
• Intelligent Structures
• Composites Processing and Characterisation
Novel cellulose fibres
Visualisation of foreign object damage
Shape-changing lattice structure
Characterisation of wrinkle defects
Academic Partnerships• HiPerDuCT Programme Grant with
Imperial College on High Performance Ductile Composites Technology– Notch insensitivity demonstrated on
thin-ply hybrids and angle-plies
• CIMComp - EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Composites led by Nottingham with Cranfield & Manchester– Successful completion of DefGen– Strong proposal for £10M Future
Manufacturing Hub, with EPSRC– Consortium extended to include
Imperial and Southampton
High strains in thin-ply carbon laminate
Modelling wrinkle formation
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training• 83 PhD students since 2009• 8th cohort starting on 19th September• Students won best paper awards at AIAA
SDM conference for third year running• Four PhDs received Faculty Commendations• Student-run quarterly industrial lecture series
– Inaugural lecture from Alex Baidak, Hexcel– Offers of further lectures very welcome
6th Annual CDT Conference - Tuesday 11th April 2017
• New look website & introductory videos:– “An introduction to the ACCIS CDT”– “Research diversity in the ACCIS CDT”
• Student prizes sponsored by Dassi and Hexcel• PhD project call for January start
– Proposal deadline: Friday 21st October
EPSRC IDC in Composites Manufacture• Integral activity of the Centre for Innovative
Manufacturing of Composites (CIMComp)• Industry based projects, TRL 3-5• 21 EngD research engineers since 2012/13• Strong link with NCC – courses held here,
number of research engineers based at NCC
• First Conference of the IDC on Tue 18th October 2016, NCC– Please contact Maria Aviles on [email protected] if you are interested in
attending.
Current sponsors include: Aviation Enterprises Ltd., Formax, Hexcel, Jaguar Land Rover, Jo Bird & Co., Mark Wright & Sons, National Composites Centre, National Physics Laboratory, NOV Elmar, Pentaxia and Rolls-Royce.
ACCIS – a year in view
ACCIS PhD Graduates• Bing Zhang - Self-sensing through-
thickness reinforcement• Jie Yuan - Mistuning analysis of aero-engine
bladed discs• Michael Elkington - The future of sheet
prepreg lay-up• Broderick Coburn - Buckling of stiffened
variable stiffness panels• Chenchen Zhu - Manufacturing of cellulose
and chitin fibres• Luca Boldrin - Novel gradient cellular and
nanocomposite structures• Rainer Groh - Straight-fibre and tow-
steered composite beams and plates• Simon White - Post-buckling of variable-
stiffness shell structures• Ettore Lamacchia - Geometrically non-
linear shells for morphing applications•
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Graduation Day February 2016
(L-R) Bing, Jie, Michael, Broderick, Chenchen, Luca, Rainer, Simon, Ettore
ACCIS PhD Graduates cont.• Ric Sun - Impact modelling of composites• Supratik Mukhopadhyay - Failure of
laminates containing embedded wrinkles• Steven Rae - Novel self-healing systems:
expanding and inhibited healing agents• Rafael Luterbacher Mus - Self-healing
for structural applications• Bassam El Said - Integrated multi-scale
modelling of 3D woven composites• James Trevarthen - Towards CNT
fibre/polymer composites• Francesca Pernice - On delamination
migration in composite laminates• Dennis Crowley - In-process inspection
for advanced composites manufacture• Desislava Bacheva - Novel bio-inspired
materials and structures
Graduation Day, July 2016
(L-R) Ric, Supratik, Steven, Rafael, Bassam, James, Francesca
• Jamie Blanchfield - Fatigue delamination onset and growth
• Eric Eckstein - Behaviour of composite bimorphs at elevated temperatures
National Composites Centre Links• Kevin Potter joint NCC Chair• Increasing number of IDC
research engineers based at NCC provide a strong link
• Mechanism established for pull-through of technology to NCC
• £1.3M committed support by NCC for Future Manufacturing Hub
• EPSRC autoclave and process monitoring equipment operational, available to other universities via CIMComp
• ACCIS – NCC joint conference!
Future Opportunities• Academic and industrial collaborations, secondments• Major new research programmes through Innovate UK,
MoD, EPSRC and Horizon 2020 initiatives• Blue skies PhDs; initial studies - CDT, MEng, MSc projects • EngD projects in IDC in composites manufacture• EPSRC Impact Acceleration Projects• Knowledge Transfer Partnerships• Joint programmes with the National Composites Centre
Hierarchical truss structureNovel braided metal-composite joint