Advanced Composites Centre for

Innovation and Science

6th ANNUAL CONFERENCE

17th September 2013

www.bris.ac.uk/composites

Programme Introduction and update on ACCIS activities

Prof Michael Wisnom, Director Towards a design for Manufacture capability for composites - tying together manufacturing research to maximise impact Kevin Potter, Professor in Composites Manufacturing Ultrasonic imaging and NDE of composite components Paul Wilcox, Professor in Dynamics Textile preform deformation modelling Stephen Hallett, Professor in Composite Structures Latest developments in Variable Angle Tow composites Paul Weaver, Professor in Lightweight Structures Improving fracture toughness of glass/epoxy composites using nanoparticles and modified rubber Sameer Rahatekar, Lecturer in Composites and Nanocomposites Evolution of auxetics: multiphysics gradient composite configurations and their manufacturing Fabrizio Scarpa, Professor of Smart Materials and Structures One minute presentations by ACCIS researchers

12.30-14.00 Lunch, posters, 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

DTC Design, Build, Test

Modelling of carbon nanotube structure

Academic Staff

• 16 core ACCIS staff in Engineering

• Stephen Hallett promoted August 2013 to Professor in Composite Structures

• Richard Trask promoted to Reader in Multifunctional Materials

• Over 40 academic staff across the University with an interest in composites

Prof. Hallett

Dr. Trask

New Appointments • Jo Brooks, Industrial Doctorate Centre Manager

• Zennon Sherley-Dale, IDC Administrator

• Sarah Hallworth, ACCIS DTC Manager

• Chris Bennett, Postgraduate Student Administrator

• Kate Orchard-Lisle, ACCIS and UTC Project Manager Appointed September 2012 but will be leaving us at the end of the month

• Katherine Blackwell will be joining to take on this role

Jo Brooks

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 – Dr Eric Kim Two year Fellowship on

Continuous Tow Shearing – New projects on textile preforms and

defect generation mechanisms • HiPerDuCT Programme Grant with Imperial

College on High Performance Ductile Composites Technology

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

ACCIS Doctoral Training Centre • 47 students, 5th Cohort starting • Call for PhD projects, by 25th Oct • DTC conference in April • Joe Mills-Brown passed his viva in

August - first to complete PhD • James Lightfoot started at Frazer-

Nash consultancy in August • Isabel Qamar (2011) €4000 travel

award at Self-Healing Conference

• Desi Bacheva (2009) won SEM Student Paper Competition • Three placements in USA: Neil Buckney (Sandia), Alex

Brinkmeyer (CalTech) Francesca Pernice (NASA Langley) • Renewal bid to EPSRC shortlisted – panel on 24th October

EPSRC Industrial Doctorate Centre

• £3.9M awarded to Bristol in May 2012 • Specifically for Composites Manufacture • Managed under CIMComp • Linked to NCC • Director is Prof. Ivana Partridge • 30+ four year EngDs • Company based projects, TRL 3 to 5 • Programme approved by UoB and

adopted at Nottingham and Cranfield • Open to project proposals at any time • Extension bid to EPSRC shortlisted –

panel in October

First IDC Research Engineers, L to R: Oliver Gaite (NCC), Ashley Barnes (RR), Ffion Martin (JLR)

New ACCIS MSc programme • New full-time taught MSc programme launched, first

students in October • Offers a world-class education to acquire an in-depth

theoretical understanding and practical/industrial knowledge of advanced composite materials

• Aims to attract top students and professionals with first degrees in engineering or a closely related field

• Course content covers both industrially-focused and research-focused core subjects with a selected number of optional courses

• Course leader is Dr Sameer Rahatekar

New ACCIS PhDs

• Ajit Panesar - ‘Multistable Morphing Composites Using Variable Angle Tows’

• James White – ‘An Engineering Approach to the Complete Maxillary Denture’

• Mike Russ – ‘Tailoring the Electric and Dielectric Behaviours of Polymer Nanocomposites Intended for Lightning Strike Protection of Aircraft’

• Adam Pickard – ‘High Cycle Vibration of Composites with Delamination Growth’

• Xavier Lachenal – ‘Concepts for Morphing Composite Structures using Non-Linear Stiffness Tailoring’

Dr Adam Pickard (left), Dr Xavier Lachenal

Graduation Day 15th July 2013

Composites Innovation: From Atoms to Applications

£3.1M equipment grant from EPSRC under the Capital for Great Technologies call, announced in August • Understanding the evolving microstructure

based on measurements in unprecedented detail throughout the manufacturing and product cycles

• Three sets of heavily instrumented equipment: – Knowledge Based Processing (Kevin Potter):

Process vessel, CT system, AFP rig, data capture – High Speed Deformation Tracking (Stephen Hallett):

Ultra high speed camera and DIC systems – Nano to Microstructural Characterisation (Martin Kuball):

SAXS, AFM, Catholuminescence SEM • Process equipment to be located in new space at NCC

New Projects

●Strategic Investment in LOw-carbon Engine Technology 2 (SILOET2) – Stephen Hallett (TSB, Rolls-Royce) - Value £800k

●Carbon Nanotube and Graphene Based Advanced Composite Lightweight Architectures for Improved Energy Absorption and Thermal Management in Aerospace Structures– Fabrizio Scarpa (British Council India)

●Dimensionally Stable Textile Preforms for use in Liquid Resin Infusion Manufacture – Dmitry Ivanov (EPSRC) - Value: £46k

●Defect Generation Mechanisms in Thick and Variable Thickness Composite Parts – Understanding, Predicting and Mitigation (DefGen)– Stephen Hallett (EPSRC) - Value: £735k

New Projects (continued) ●Self-healing Polymers for Concepts on Self-repaired Aeronautical Composites (HIPOCRATES) – Ian Bond (EC FP7) - Value: £213k ●G8-2012 Material Efficiency - A First Step Toward Sustainable Manufacture – Kevin Potter (EPSRC) - Value: £218k ●Engineering Photonics: Development and Application of Instrumentation and Sensors – Ivana Partridge (EPSRC) ●Persuasive demonstrators for advances in structural composites – Ivana Partridge (EPSRC Impact Acceleration, NCC) – Value: £100k.

New Projects (continued) ●Morphing Enabling Technologies for Propulsion System Nacelles (MORPHELLE) – Fabrizio Scarpa, Giuliano Allegri (EU FP7) – Value: £215k

●A Tool for the Multi-Scale Damage Tolerant Design of Tapered Composite Laminates – Giuliano Allegri (EPSRC Impact Acceleration, Rolls-Royce) – Value: £100k.

Japanese Collaboration • UK-Japan workshop held in Bristol,

March 2013, with 9 top researchers from Japan

• Prof. Hiroshi Suemasu, Sophia University, 5 month secondment, working with Michael Wisnom

• • Dr Yogi Okabe, visiting fellow from

the University of Tokyo, working with Fabrizio Scarpa

• Dr. Shin-Ichi Takeda, JAXA, spent one year on notched failure

New analytical solution for impact of plates including

large deformations H. Suemasu

National Composites Centre Links • ACCIS researchers have joined

NCC staff, others are involved in projects

• UoB will have greater presence at NCC in Knowledge and Innovation Centre as part of £28M Phase II announced in December 2012

• EPSRC process monitoring equipment to be located at NCC, available for use by other universities via CIMComp

• UoB-NCC chair in Composites Manufacturing and Design

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

EPSRC and FP7 initiatives – E.g. Aerospace Technology Institute TSB call

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