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09:00
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Chair’s Opening Remarks
Simon Smith,
Managing Director, Transforming Stress Ltd.
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09:05
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Net-Zero Sustainable Lightweight Technology for Mass
Production
Alan Banks, UK
Lightweight Innovations Manager, Ford
· Circular Economy
· Design for
Disassembly and Reuse
· Affordability and
business case
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09:25
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Question and answer session
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09:30
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Do we really need to recycle composites?
Ajay Kapadia, Knowledge
Transfer Manager, Composites, Knowledge Transfer Network
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09:50
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Question and Answer Session
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09:55
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Sustainable materials and future solutions
Ben Andrews, Business
Development Manager – Emerging & Sustainable Technology, SHD Composite
Materials Ltd
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10:15
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Question and Answer Session
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10:20
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Networking Refreshment
Break
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Composites across
Transport Sectors
Chair: Alan Banks,
UK Lightweight Innovations Manager, Ford
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10:50
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Application of
Artificial Intelligence in Structural Health Monitoring
Srinivasan
Gopalakrishnan, Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
· Need for Machine
and deep learning approaches for Structural Health Monitoring
· Use of Ultrasonic
guided wave (UGW) coupled with Machine and Deep Learning approaches for
damage detection, damage localization and material property identification
metallic and composite structures
· The focus of the
presentation is towards model-assisted and physics guided deep learning. In
this approach, domain knowledge and expert-based supervision is utilized to
steer the learning process
· The performance of
the networks is compared based on metrics like accuracy, loss value, mean
absolute error, mean absolute percentage error, and coefficient of
determination
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11:10
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Question and answer session
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11:15
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Composite materials and circularity in the railway
Katy Beardsworth,
Environmental Strategy Manager, Network Rail
Darren Sharp, Engineering
Consultant, Permanent Way Engineering
· Composite sleepers
as an alternative to concrete, timber or steel
· Circular economy of
rail materials
· Potential for
increased composite material use in rail
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11:35
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Question and answer session
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11:40
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Innovation in rail infrastructure – a case study in rail
electrification
Noel Dolphin, Director,
Furrer and Frey AG
· UK’s first
composite railway electrification mast was installed in March 2022.
· Composites reduced
embodied carbon by 75% across the whole railway electrification system.
· Challenges of installing
in a real rail environment
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12:00
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Question and Answer Session
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12:05
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The Sustainability Challenges of Composites (WIP)
Jonathan Wanless, Life
Cycle Assessment Specialist, Polestar
· The good things
about composites for sustainability
· The bad things
about composites for sustainability
· How Polestar is
managing the two, case study: BCOMP
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12:20
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Question and Answer Session
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12:25
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Flax fibre composites for sustainable marine structures
Adam Sobey,
Associate Professor, Maritime Engineering group, University of Southampton
· Variable behaviour
of flax structures.
· Case studies into
the use of Flax in some Marine Structural applications.
· Investigating
hybrid flax-glass structures
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12:45
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Question and Answer Session
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12:50
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Networking Lunch
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Composites in
Sports Engineering
Chair: Thomas
Allen, Manchester Metropolitan University
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13:50
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Sustainable Product Design in the Sports Industry
Nathan Elliott,
R&D Engineer, Racket Sports, HEAD
· Building
sustainability into carbon fibre products whilst maintaining high-performance
attributes
· Case study of
natural fibre tennis racket: replacing carbon fibres with flax-based plant
fibres
· Ensuring high
quality and durable design with limited co2 production through the entire
lifecycle
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14:10
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Question and answer session
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14:15
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Bambú – an Innovative Change to the Sport of Hurling
Aonghus Clarke,
Innovation Lead, Torpey
· The GAA and
traditional hurley making background
· Problem solving
with sustainable products in mind
· Innovative
solutions and adaption
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14:35
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Question and answer session
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14:40
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Scaling Up to make a difference
Gary Owen, CEO,
Lineat Composites
· Lineat Technology
· Scaling Up-
Difficulties & Opportunities
· Commercial
Validation
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15:00
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Question and answer session
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15:05
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Networking
Refreshment Break
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Composites in
Construction
Chair: Sue
Halliwell, Composites UK
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15:35
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Torkington Park – A first for Fibre-reinforced Polymer
Reinforcement
Martin Halpin, Innovation
and Development Manager, Cheetham Hill Construction Ltd
· Replacing steel
reinforcement and concrete on a RC trash screen structure with FRP
reinforcement and Reduced Carbon Concrete
· Securing funding
from the Environment Agency Net Zero Carbon Innovation Pathway Fund
· Using ‘Combar’
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15:55
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Question and Answer Session
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16:00
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Recent Innovations in Circular Composites
Jen Hill, Director,
B&M Longworth
· Bringing the
solution to the waste - reducing transportation of waste
· Examples of recent
reclamation successes
· Dispelling the
myths of rCF
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16:20
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Question and answer session
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16:25
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Chair’s Closing Remarks
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16:35
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End of Seminar
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