Advances in Composite Materials - Engineering Sustainability

National Composites Centre, Bristol

08 October 2015
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Overview

Advances in Composite Materials - Engineering Sustainability will bring together research leaders from industry and academia in advanced composite manufacturing to address scientific challenges and accelerate developments of composites technologies.

The global composites community has recently experienced an unprecedented growth in knowledge and R&D investment into advanced manufacturing that has propelled developments of the state-of-the-art and future composites manufacturing technologies.

As a result, the technical and scientific challenges have been amplified accordingly, so this seminar will provide a vital opportunity for sharing experiences and future plans.

Attend this seminar to gain:

- Unprecedented access to innovative industry case studies of future composite applications
- An appreciation of the challenges of recycling composite materials and the need to implement a whole life-cycle analysis
- An understanding of new skills in advanced composites manufacturing
- An in-depth explanation around the technical knowledge of novel conceptual ideas in advanced composites manufacturing
- A stronger connection with relevant key players from Government, industry and academia

More information, including the full speaker line-up and agenda, will follow shortly.

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Day 1

08:30 - Full Day Programme

08:30

REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS

09:00

CHAIR’S OPENING REMARKS
Helen Meese, Head of Engineering in Society, Institution of Mechanical Engineers

09:10

FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Alison Starr, Executive Director Business and Strategy, National Composites Centre (NCC)

• An overview of the NCC
• Implementing and upholding the CLF strategy
• What next? Areas of focus 2015-2020

09:40

THE ROLE OF STANDARDS IN SUPPORTING THE COMPOSITES INDUSTRY

Andrew Downey, Chairman, BSI Technical Committee

• Review of current standards for glass and carbon fibre composite materials and test methods
• Work in progress and future plans for composite materials standards
• The opportunity to improve and develop standards to more closely meet current and future industry
needs

10:10

ON THE BARRIERS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ISO STANDARD FOR CFRP
DRILLED HOLE QUALITY
Kevin Kerrigan, Head Composite Machining Group, AMRC

• Currently, individual companies apply internal company quality standards to holes drilled in
composite materials
• The understanding of the effect of different damage types requires an additional understanding of
the effect of such damage upon the mechanical performance of a composite component
• With a change in material properties, there is a requirement to re-qualify the effect of such damage,
leading to the need for advanced testing frameworks and the use of virtual tools such as finite
element analysis to accelerate the qualification process

10:40

NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK

INDUSTRY CASE STUDIES

11:10

NATIONAL COMPOSITES CASE STUDY
Paul Gallen, Business Support Engineer, National Composites Centre (NCC)

• The opportunities that composites presents
• The value of composite materials
• An overview of the NCC’s support as well as other composite-focused organisations

11:40

CASE STUDY : LIFE CYCLE MODELLING
Robert Crow, Group Leader Materials Innovation and Jamie Shaw, Technical Specialist Sustainability, Jaguar Land Rover

• The current methodology and toolset in place
• Introducing carbon fibre and the effect this has
• Technical challenges of reducing the carbon impact of carbon fibre

12:10

Q&A PANEL SESSION
An opportunity to ask any questions to the morning presenters and discuss some of the raised points with our panel of experts.

• Alison Starr, Executive Director – Business and Strategy, National Composites Centre
• Robert Crow, Group Leader – Materials Innovation, Jaguar Land Rover
• Ajay Kapadia, Advanced Materials, Knowledge Transfer Network
• Andrew Downey, Chairman, BSI Technical Committee

12:30

NETWORKING LUNCH

END OF LIFE PROCESSING AND WASTE MANAGEMENT

13:30

COMPOSITES AND THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Stella Job, Supply Chain and Environment Officer, Composites UK

• The intractability of composites
• Successes in recycling composites
• Challenges that remain

14:00

CASE STUDY : CONVERTING COMPOSITE WASTE INTO HIGH QUALITY
REUS ABLE CARBON FIBRE
Marco Gehr, Managing Director, ELG Carbon Fibre

• CF recycling at ELG carbon fibre
• Challenges in end-of-life recycling
• Recycled carbon fibre products

14:30

NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK

15:00

IS IT ENVIRONMENTALLY BENEFICIAL TO USE COMPOSITE MATERIALS?
Bernice Robinson, 1710 NAS, Ministry of Defence

• Carbon footprints
• Lifecycle assessments
• Cradle-to-cradle thinking

15:30

Q&A PANEL SESSION

An opportunity to ask any questions to the afternoon presenters. If you would like to submit a question prior to the event please email it to eventenquiries@imeche.org

15:50

CHAIR'S CLOSING REMARKS

Helen Meese, Head of Engineering in Society, Institution of Mechanical Engineers

16:00

END OF SEMINAR

Helen Meese: Head of Engineering in Society, Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Helen Meese works to raise the profile of mechanical engineering, focusing on innovative and emerging technologies and how they impact on society in the UK and internationally. She graduated from Loughborough University in 1996 with a degree in Electro-Mechanical Power Engineering and then gained a PhD in Mechanical Engineering developing performance characteristic programmes for turbocharger compressors. Outside her work with Babcock and BAE Systems, Helen worked for GE Energy, project managing several contracts on the design and installation of electrical propulsion and navigation systems in South Korea.

Alison Starr: Executive Director Business and Strategy, National Composites Centre (NCC)

Alison Starr joined the National Composites Centre (NCC) from GE Aviation Systems, where she was Director of Strategic Partnerships. She has chaired the Composites Leadership Forum since its inception, is Chair of EPSRC’s “Manufacturing the Future” Strategic Advisory Team (SAT) and was GE’s Steering Board representative in the NCC initial start-up phase and since GE became a Tier 1 member. Alison has a wealth of knowledge on the UK’s composites industry and strong, established relationships with academia, government and funders. Alison has overall responsibility for development of NCC strategy, including sales forecasts, market engagement, account management, funding and communications.

Andrew Downey: Chairman, BSI Technical Committee

Andrew Downey is a chemical engineer and Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Metals and Mining. He has been a member of BSI Technical Committees on composite materials for over 30 years and was, for many years, the UK’s principle expert to both CEN and ISO standards committees on composite materials.

Paul Gallen: Business Support Engineer, National Composites Centre (NCC)

Paul Gallen is a Business Support Engineer for the BD team, where he works alongside Nigel Keen to identify new opportunities. This includes engaging new clients and members in projects large and small at the NCC. Paul has extensive experience of facilitating new product development as well as leading industrial scale rollouts of new manufacturing technologies. Paul’s recent projects include setting up of plants for high volume manufacture of fibre reinforced thermoplastic products and development of new IPR through technology transfers.

Robert Crow: Group Leader - Materials Innovation, Jaguar Land Rover

Robert Crow graduated from Loughborough University with a BEng in Materials Engineering in 2003 and immediately joined Jaguar’s Graduate Programme. After two years on the scheme Rob became a Senior Engineer in Materials Engineering working on the XK programme, amongst other projects. In 2008 he began his current role, focusing on developing and implementing new materials
technologies for body structures. This involves working closely with many areas of the business, including research, CAE, advanced manufacturing and body engineering, as well as external suppliers

Stella Job: Supply Chain and Environment Officer, Composites UK

Stella Job works to promote and improve the sustainability of composite materials. She is Chair of the Composites Leadership Forum Sustainability Working Group and is working with industry to implement recommendations of the Resource Efficiency Action Plan. Stella is also responsible for mapping the composite supply chain as part of the COMP-FORE project, which will help to direct requests for expertise, give a better understanding of the value and extent of the industry as well as plan training programmes.

Marco Gehr: Managing Director, ELG Carbon Fibre

Marco Gehr studied Business Administration at Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Germany. Since 2008, he has worked for the ELG Group, a global market leading company for the trading and processing of raw materials for the stainless steel industry. He was employed at the headquarters in Germany, responsible for the ongoing recycling entities in America. Marco was project manager for the commercial due diligence during the takeover of Recycled Carbon Fibre in 2011. After the acquisition he moved to the UK and worked in corporate development on the company’s integration and strategic development, before becoming the Chief Operations Officer in 2014.

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