Next Generation Fibre-Reinforced Composites: a Full Scale Redesign for Compression

Lead Research Organisation: Imperial College London
Department Name: Materials

Abstract

High performance fibre-reinforced polymer composites are the current state-of-the-art for lightweight structures and their use is rising exponentially in a wide range of applications from aerospace to sporting goods. They offer outstanding mechanical properties: high strength and stiffness, low weight, and low susceptibility to fatigue and corrosion. The use of high strength, high stiffness materials in fibre form mitigates the tendency for premature brittle failure, enables components to be formed at low or moderate temperatures, and enables anisotropic designs to target the primary load-carrying demands. Fibres are particularly efficient in uniaxial tension but, under compression, composites suffer a range of failures typically associated with fibre micro-buckling or kinking, linked to matrix or interfacial issues; these mechanisms couple in a complicated way at a variety of physical lengthscales. Often, these types of failure determine the practical usage of composites and set design limits well below the expected intrinsic performance of the constituent fibres. On the other hand, new constituents and processes are becoming available that enable the directed assembly of composite structures, controlled across a much wider range of lengthscales than previously possible. In principle, then, composite materials should be redesigned to take advantage of these opportunities to supress or redirect the failure process in compression. Natural materials, such as wood and bone, are fully hierarchical, with precise structural features resolved at every possible magnification. Artificial composites lack this dexterity but can exploit intrinsically superior constituents. The increasing ability to visualise, calculate, and control structures, including with quantitative precision, will allow a new generation of composite materials to be developed. The ambition is to realise the full intrinsic potential of the fibres by designing such hierarchical systems for compression, from first principles, exploiting the latest developments in materials, processing, characterisation, and modelling of mechanistic processes.

This programme focusses on the challenge of improving the absolute performance of composites in compression, both to address practical limitations of current materials, and as a demonstration of the value of quantitative hierarchical materials design. Tools and materials developed during this programme will be useful in a range of other contexts. The work will develop and embed structure at every lengthscale from the molecules of the matrix, to the lay-up of final components, using new constituents and new architectures, designed with a new analytical framework. The programme will benefit from a highly creative and interdisciplinary approach amongst the core project term, amplified by contributions from leading international advisors and collaborators. An extensive group of industrial partners will contribute to the project, and help to develop the outputs, building on concept demonstrators designed during the programme. The scientific and technical results will be widely disseminated nationally and internationally, helping to ensure UK leadership in this key field.

Planned Impact

NextCOMP will provide the scientific basis and fundamental methodologies to overcome the limitations of current composites; by providing innovative routes to improve critical performance parameters. As a result, the UK will gain a decisive advantage in the global marketplace. The research impacts directly on academia, industry, and the High Value Manufacturing Catapult centres including the National Composites Centre and Centre for Process Innovation.
Companies working on established composite applications, including aerospace, offshore, wind turbines, and high performance sports, will gain access to new technology, either through directly licensing intellectual property developed during the programme, or through subsequent co-development projects, facilitated by the technology transfer teams at the two universities. Industrial partners will gain new capabilities allowing them to develop new products, leading to a competitive advantage, and ultimately, UK wealth creation. In addition, through commercialisation activities, the academic institutions will benefit from additional revenue that they invest to bring forward other new technologies. The UK is home to a number of major composites companies, who maintain their world-leading position, by embracing opportunities for innovation. Several such companies will play an active role in the programme grant, helping to build a UK research network in the emerging field of hierarchical composites. This grouping will foster future collaborations, encouraging UK R&D efforts, as well as attracting inward international investment.

Manufacturing companies, for example, in civil engineering, the automotive and chemical industries, who do not routinely use composites, may begin to use new, higher performance materials, enabled by less stringent design limits, and new design tools. The UK's internationally-recognised industrial design community will thus acquire a new capability to create further innovative products. At the same time, the extended use of composite materials will engage fresh academic interest, in fields ranging from chemistry to mechanical engineering, that will support the uptake and development of new designs and applications.

By developing new composite constituents and guidelines for their refinement in different contexts, the programme will support the development of an expanded UK materials supply chain for composites. Although the composite sector is predicted to expand rapidly, most of the added value is expected to lie with the materials supply, an area in which the UK lags. New materials solutions provide an opportunity to re-establish a lead in the market. The expansion is predicted to create a severe skills shortage, and the development of a high profile project will directly train a cohort of highly networked, skilled individuals, as well as motivate wider recruitment.

More generally, society will benefit from the emergent hierarchical composites that provide improved performance, safety and environmental sustainability in a variety of contexts. Associated weight reductions will offer improved fuel efficiency or range in transport applications, while wind turbines will be more structurally efficient and benefit from reduced maintenance requirements, particularly offshore. Some embodiments may enable direct recycling or reuse, a long-term composite goal. The program is aligned with stated UK objectives to realign the economy towards advanced manufacturing. It provides an opportunity to highlight the contribution of Science and Engineering towards these goals, both with the public and within government. Engagement with the general public through festivals, exhibitions, and online, together with educational activities in or with schools will advance the STEM agenda and help to develop the UK skills base.
 
Description Further information on this ongoing project is available through the website
Exploitation Route The project will have a range of ongoing impacts in the academic and industrial composites communities, as illustrated by the ICCM (International Conference on Composite Materials) outputs and industrial partners, listed on the website.
Sectors Aerospace

Defence and Marine

Chemicals

Construction

Transport

URL http://nextcomp.ac.uk
 
Description IH appointed NCC chair in Sustainable Polymers and Composites 3rd March 2022
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
URL https://www.nccuk.com/news/university-of-bristol-and-the-national-composite-centre-make-key-strategi...
 
Description MP, SE, and IH Workshop on Role of Chemistry in Sustainable Composites 26th January 2022
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL https://www.nccuk.com/sustainable-composites/
 
Description MS/STP Composites UK Parliamentary Reception 2023
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL https://compositesuk.co.uk/events/composites-uk-parliamentary-reception
 
Description SE and MS attended an Engineering Strategic Advisory Team (SAT) event
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://epsrc.ukri.org/research/ourportfolio/themes/engineering/strategy/sat/
 
Description Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) 2020 
Organisation Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Provide information and ideas being developed in the programme.
Collaborator Contribution Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) supports the programme with insight and expertise as an Instrural Partner.
Impact No output currently resulted.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Speciality Materials 2021 
Organisation Specialty Materials
Country United States 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Characterisation and implantation of these specialist fibres in novel composites architectures and tests will be undertaken to better understand their properties.
Collaborator Contribution The supplier provides materials which are not widely available.
Impact Materials received - no output currently resulted.
Start Year 2021
 
Description "Understanding and improving longitudinal compression strength" Conference Session at ICCM23 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact STP/RT organised a session at the 23rd International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM23), Belfast, Northern Ireland (2023) with support from JoG/DA/MS and the rest of the Team. The special session featured 28 speakers across eight sessions in three days of talks on "Understanding and improving longitudinal compression strength" held at the ICC Belfast International Convention & Exhibition Centre in Hall 2A (1st August to 3rd August 2023).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://iccm23.org/
 
Description Access to Bristol Interactive Composites Workshop Y12 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Access to Bristol Interactive Composites Workshop for Year 12 Students as part of the Access to Bristol programme where a range of school students from diverse backgrounds from different local schools are given an insight into engineering at University of Bristol. Students were able to make and test jelly/pasta composites using the popular NextCOMP Crusher kits which was a source of much amusement and learning at the workshop on the 15 March 2023. The session also featured our brand new activity The "NextCOMP Stretcher" which was a great success. This activity involves manufacturing a range of composites with different fibre reinforcements and testing their tensile strength in an experiment designed by NextCOMP Team. IL/RT/JoG/IL/ElG/ND/CW/RB were involved in delivering the 2 h session which was very successful with excellent participant engagement.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.nextcomp.ac.uk/pages/news.html
 
Description ArT BCI Doctoral research Symposium 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact ArT gave an oral presentation in-person on 4th April 2023 at the Bristol Composites Institute Doctoral Research Symposium held in Bristol 2023, UK on the topic "Investigation of the Compressive Behaviour of Carbon/Glass Fibre Hybrid Composites with a 4-Point Flexural Test".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.bristol.ac.uk/composites/events-and-seminars/events/2023/bci-symposium.html
 
Description ArT ICCM23 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact ArT gave an oral presentation in-person on 3rd August 2023 at the 23rd International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM23) held in Belfast, Northern Ireland on the topic "Investigation of compressive behaviour of glass/carbon fibre hybrid composite with 4-point flexural test".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://iccm-central.org/Proceedings/ICCM23proceedings/papers/ICCM23_Full_Paper_352.pdf
 
Description BCI Film 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact NextCOMP University of Bristol team members produced a film giving an overview of the project as part of the Bristol Composites Institute Annual Conference 2021 for a dedicated interactive session during the event. Uploaded to YouTube 19th October 2021 (views 387 2024-03-12, views 298 2023-03-15).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021,2022,2023,2024
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1_vaMl0Mjc
 
Description BZ ICCM23 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact BZ gave an oral presentation in-person on 2nd August 2023 at the 23rd International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM23) held in Belfast, Northern Ireland on the topic "Pure shear and compression-shear characterisation of a polymer matrix for carbon fibre composites".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://iccm-central.org/Proceedings/ICCM23proceedings/papers/ICCM23_Full_Paper_350.pdf
 
Description Bristol Composites Institute Annual Conference 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Composites for Future Resilience - Bristol Composites Institute Annual Conference 2021 was held at the University of Bristol on 9th November 2021. Members RT, SE, LP, JG, GQ, and CW of the NextCOMP Team attended and shared details of the programme and ongoing research to the in-person attendees (over 250 people), and an interactive virtual networking session proceeded the introductory talks. Panel discussions were held later allowing for further discussions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/news/2021/bristol-composites-institute-annual-conference-2021....
 
Description CS ICCM23 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact CS gave an oral presentation in-person on 2nd August 2023 at the 23rd International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM23) held in Belfast, Northern Ireland on the topic "Bicontinuous silica-epoxy nanocomposites".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://iccm-central.org/Proceedings/ICCM23proceedings/papers/ICCM23_Full_Paper_349.pdf
 
Description CW BCI Doctoral research Symposium 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact CW gave an oral presentation in-person on 4th April 2023 at the Bristol Composites Institute Doctoral Research Symposium held in Bristol 2023, UK on the topic "Compressive characterisation of single carbon fibres and their interface via in situ Raman spectroscopy".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.bristol.ac.uk/composites/events-and-seminars/events/2023/bci-symposium.html
 
Description CW BSSM PGEM 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact CW gave an oral presentation in-person on 8th April 2022 at British Society for Strain Measurement Postgraduate Experimental Mechanics Conference, held between 7-8 April, Bristol, United Kingdom on the topic of "Measuring the micromechanical response of single carbon fibres & their treated interface in model composites under compression via the use of in-situ Raman spectroscopy".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description CW Carbon Fibres Futures 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact CW gave an oral presentation remotely on 9th May 2023 at the Carbon Fibre Futures Conference 2023 held in Geelong, Australia on the topic "In situ Raman spectroscopic characterisation of single carbon fibres and their modified interface in compressive deformation".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.nextcomp.ac.uk/pages/news.html
 
Description CW ICCM23 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact CW gave an oral presentation in-person on 3rd August 2023 at the 23rd International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM23) held in Belfast, Northern Ireland on the topic "Compressive characterisation of single carbon fibres and their interface via in situ Raman spectroscopy".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://iccm-central.org/Proceedings/ICCM23proceedings/papers/ICCM23_Full_Paper_353.pdf
 
Description Crushing composites: NextCOMP and BCI Fun at Festival of Nature - Bristol Composites Institute Blog 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The blog on Crushing composites: NextCOMP and BCI Fun at Festival of Nature highlighted the public engagement activity of the programme with the BNHC - The Natural History Consortium at the Festival of Nature, posted 2023-06-23. The blog was shared through a newsletter to the members of the Bristol Composites Institute, University of Bristol.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://composites.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2023/06/23/crushing-composites-nextcomp-and-bci-fun-at-festiv...
 
Description DA ICCM23 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact DA gave an oral presentation in-person on 1st August 2023 at the 23rd International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM23) held in Belfast, Northern Ireland on the topic "Carbon nanotube-grafted quartz fibers as piezoresistive reinforcement elements".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://iccm-central.org/Proceedings/ICCM23proceedings/papers/ICCM23_Full_Paper_342.pdf
 
Description DA Invited talk at UoV 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact DA gave an oral presentation in-person on the 4th May at the Institute of Materials Chemistry, University of Vienna in Vienna, Austria on the topic "Hierarchical solutions to compressive problems in fibre-reinforced composites: A focus on the potential of carbon nanotube-grafted carbon fibres". Lively discussions we held afterwards and on-going collaboration to use fibre processing equipment reinforced.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://twitter.com/IMCRUnivie/status/1522272972110712833
 
Description DA The Fibre Soc Spring Meeting 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact DA gave an oral presentation in-person on 31st May 2022 at The Fiber Society Spring Meeting 2022, held between 30-31 May and 1 June 2022, Leuven, Belgium on the topic "Carbon Nanotube-Grafted Carbon Fiber Production: A Scaling Challenge". After questions and discussions, a future collaboration was proposed with CFR/FA at Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description DB ICCM23 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact DB gave an oral presentation in-person on 2nd August 2023 at the 23rd International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM23) held in Belfast, Northern Ireland on the topic "Computationally efficient FE micromechanical modelling of unidirectional composites under longitudinal loading".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://iccm-central.org/Proceedings/ICCM23proceedings/papers/ICCM23_PPT_377.pdf
 
Description Digimakers 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Digimakers in partnership with the University of Bristol and the Chartered Institute for IT members organised an outreach session on the 11th February 2023 at Trinity Centre, Bristol, United Kingdom. CW/BZ/JoG attended and interacted with approx. 100 attendees. Event was targeted at children mostly within 8-13 age range plus carers. Our interactive stand about composites was very popular and we had many interesting conversations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.digimakers.co.uk
 
Description Discover and Discuss KS2 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact A Discover and Discuss Schools Key Stage 2 composites focused classroom activity (Three classes, Year 3, Year 4, and Year 5) was lead by EG and BZ, and an event was held on the 8th March 2023. The tasks were designed to aid Teachers in an interactive learning session with their students at local school in Avonmouth, Bristol, United Kingdom. This event was part of the FUTURES European Researchers Night campaign (UK Research and Innovation as part of the Horizon Europe Guarantee). This interactive classroom activity allowed the teacher to lead the students to manufacture, test, and record data about composites made using jelly and dried pasta using the "NextCOMP Crusher" (https://twitter.com/NextCOMP_ac_uk/status/1575895381485191168). Kits were delivered to the school, and once the activities were completed by the students they were followed by an online call with the researchers (EG and BZ) to discuss their findings and to ask questions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://futuresnight.co.uk/
 
Description FL Invited Lecture 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A NextCOMP Invited Virtual Seminar Series was delivered by FL on 22nd November 2023. The lecture on the topic of "Determination of the longitudinal compressive strength of some laminated composite materials using various classical and innovative tests" was held in virtual format with ~60 attendees from around the world, the talk was informative and enjoyed by all with an insightful questions and answers session at the end.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.nextcomp.ac.uk/pages/news.html
 
Description FL NextCOMP Invited Virtual Seminar Series 2023 Youtube 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact A recording of the NextCOMP Invited Virtual Seminar Series 2023 delivered by FL titled, "Determination of the longitudinal compressive strength of some laminated composite materials using various classical and innovative tests" given live on 22nd November 2023 was uploaded to YouTube 11th March 2024, to raise awareness about the project and FL's research at ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab (45 views 2024-03-12).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wTUgYPkAJE
 
Description FMH Invited Lecture 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A NextCOMP Invited Lecture was delivered by FMH on 2nd November 2022 at Imperial College London. The lecture on the topic of "Impact Response of Automated Fibre Placement Advanced Placed Ply composites: An Experimental and Numerical Study" was held hybrid format with ~70 attendees from around the world, the talk was informative and enjoyed by all with an insightful questions and answers session at the end.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.nextcomp.ac.uk/pages/news.html
 
Description FS SARC 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact FS gave an in-person oral presentation at the Swedish Aerospace Research Centre (SARC) event hosted at Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom on the 1st March 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://sarc.center/
 
Description FUTURES 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact NextCOMP members JoG/RT/ElG/IL/CW/IH/BZ hosted an informative and interactive stand at FUTURES European Researchers Night 2022 engaging with public about research. The event was hosted on the SS Great Britain on the 30th September 2022, and was supported by the UK Research and Innovation as part of the Horizon Europe Guarantee.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://2022.futuresnight.co.uk/
 
Description Festival of Nature 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact NextCOMP hosted an informative and interactive stand at Barton Hill Family Day/Festival of Nature 2022 engaging with public about research. JoG/RT/LP/CW/IH/GQ participated on the 18th June 2022 all-day event, to ca.100 people with 2000 people in attendance across the whole Festival of Nature.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.bnhc.org.uk/festival-of-nature/festival-of-nature-2022-what-happened/
 
Description GQ Challenges in the design with composite materials 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact GQ gave an oral presentation in a hybrid format on 29th April 2022 at Challenges in the design with composite materials hosted by Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, Lima, Peru.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description GQ ECCM20 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact GQ gave an oral presentation in-person on 27th June 2022 at the 20th European Conference on Composite Materials (ECCM20) held between June 26-30 2022 in Lausanne, Switzerland on the topic "Design of a bending experiment for mechanical characterisation of pultruded rods under compression".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description GQ EMMC18 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact GQ gave an oral presentation in-person at the 18th European Mechanics of Materials Conference (EMMC18) held between 4-6 April 2022, in Oxford, United Kingdom.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://twitter.com/NextCOMP_ac_uk/status/1513431317970567171
 
Description GQ ICCM23 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact GQ gave an oral presentation in-person on 3rd August 2023 at the 23rd International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM23) held in Belfast, Northern Ireland on the topic "Experimental characterisation of the dilation angle of polymers".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://iccm-central.org/Proceedings/ICCM23proceedings/papers/ICCM23_Full_Paper_351.pdf
 
Description GQ video abstract in Polymer Testing 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact GQ video abstract to advertise publication, "Experimental characterisation of the dilation angle of polymers" in Polymer Testing, Volume 125, August 2023, 108137, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymertesting.2023.108137. This promotion increased engagement for the research article and was use in a media campaign on LinkedIn (139 views 2024-03-12).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023,2024
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKQ6c2ByXQ0
 
Description HA ICCM23 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact HA gave an oral presentation in-person on 3rd August 2023 at the 23rd International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM23) held in Belfast, Northern Ireland on the topic "Failure of carbon nanotube-grafted carbon fibre reinforced composites by single fibre pull-out".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://iccm-central.org/Proceedings/ICCM23proceedings/papers/ICCM23_Full_Paper_158.pdf
 
Description IH/IL ACCIS/CoSEM CDT STEM Outreach Day 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact IH introduced a full day of composite related activities to a group of 50 students from Year 12 from Katharine Lady Berkeley School (Gloucester) at the Bristol Composites Institute on 18 May 2023. Interactive activities followed the talk led by IL with the demonstrator "NextCOMP Crusher" amongst other challenges held as part of the Advanced Composites for Innovation and Science/Composites Science, Engineering and Manufacturing (ACCIS/CoSEM) Centre for Doctoral Training Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (CDT STEM) Outreach Day at the University of Bristol.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://composites.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2023/05/30/cdt-outreach-day-2023
 
Description IL BCI Doctoral research Symposium 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact IL gave an oral presentation in-person on 4th April 2023 at the Bristol Composites Institute Doctoral Research Symposium held in Bristol 2023, UK on the topic "Highly aligned, discontinuous fibre composites for enhanced compressive performance".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.bristol.ac.uk/composites/events-and-seminars/events/2023/bci-symposium.html
 
Description IL ICCM23 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact IL gave an oral presentation in-person on 1st August 2023 at the 23rd International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM23) held in Belfast, Northern Ireland on the topic "Characterisation of highly-aligned, discontinuous, fibre composites for compressive performance".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://iccm-central.org/Proceedings/ICCM23proceedings/papers/ICCM23_Full_Paper_338.pdf
 
Description IN BCI-NCC Annual Conference 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact IN gave an oral presentation in-person on 16th November 2023 at the 2023 Bristol Composites Institute & National Composites Centre Annual Conference: Composites of the Future: Tomorrow's Materials and Applications held in Bristol, UK on the topic "Promoting the future of innovative sustainability in composite materials for environmental impact reduction".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://composites.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2023/11/23/2023-bci-ncc-annual-conference
 
Description Industrial Workshop at National Composite Centre 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact The Industrial Workshop was an opportunity for 11 companies and 16 industrial partners to engage with the research team to hear about the research and to help define the future NextCOMP research activities. Increased communication between parties has subsequently been achieved through newsletters and providing research highlights.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.nextcomp.ac.uk/pages/news.html
 
Description Insight into Bristol - Interactive Composites Workshop Y12 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact NextCOMP engaged in an Interactive Composites Workshop for Year 12 Students as part of the Insight Into Bristol programme where a range of school students from diverse backgrounds from different local schools are given an insight into engineering at the University of Bristol. The workshop which took place on the 27 July 2023 involved two main interactive activities, making and testing jelly/spaghetti composites using the "NextCOMP Crusher", and making and testing composites using the "NextCOMP Stretcher".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description LA NextCOMP Annual Lecture 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A NextCOMP Annual Lecture was delivered by LA on 23rd August 2023 held at University of Bristol. The lecture on the topic of "Realisation and performance of carbon fibre based structural battery composites" was held in hybrid format with ~100 attendees from around the world, the talk was informative and enjoyed by all with an insightful questions and answers session at the end.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.nextcomp.ac.uk/pages/news.html
 
Description LA NextCOMP Annual Lecture 2023 Youtube 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact A recording of the NextCOMP Annual Lecture 2023 delivered by LA titled, "Realisation and performance of carbon fibre based structural battery composites" given live on 23rd August 2023 was uploaded to YouTube 23th September 2023, to raise awareness about the project and LA's research (34 views to date, 2024-03-12).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023,2024
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keZFfIbpR9U
 
Description LP ACM5 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact LP gave an oral presentation in-person on 7th April 2022 at the Fifth International Symposium on Automated Composites Manufacturing (ACM5) held between 5-7 April 2022 in Bristol, United Kingdom on the topic "Manufacturing of novel hierarchical hybridised composites".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description LP BIRCA Funding Blog 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A blog highlighting the LP being awarded the Bristol International Research Collaboration Activities (BIRCA) funding to host a workshop discussing Composites for High Energy Physics with collaborators from CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) in Switzerland, the National Composites Centre (NCC), and the Bristol Composites Institute (BCI).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://irp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2023/12/12/birca-funded-workshop-on-composites-for-high-energy-physi...
 
Description LP Composites for High Energy Physics Workshop 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact LP (Senior NextCOMP Research Associate) organised a workshop on "Composites for High Energy Physics" on the 15th November 2023. This was attended with colleagues from CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire), and members of the National Composites Centre (NCC) and Bristol Composites Institute (BCI). The workshop included a tour of NCC and BCI facilities, and discussions of three important areas of research cryogenics and extreme environment, truss structuresm and microvascular channels and cooling systems.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.bristol.ac.uk/international-research-development/visiting-researchers/birca2324.html/com...
 
Description LP ECCM20 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact LP gave an oral presentation in-person on 28th June 2022 at the 20th European Conference on Composite Materials (ECCM20) held between June 26-30 2022 in Lausanne, Switzerland on the topic "Manufacturing advances for pultruded rod based structural members and thick ply systems".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description LP EPSRC Future Composites Manufacturing Research Hub Open Day 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact LP gave a presentation at the virtual EPSRC Future Composites Manufacturing Research Hub Open Day on 19th October 2021. The event was attended by ca. 200 people including academics, and industrial representatives.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://hubopenday.eng.ed.ac.uk/
 
Description LP Film Pressing Matters: Designing the Next Generation of Composite Materials 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact LP gives a presentation "Pressing Matters: Designing the Next Generation of Composite Materials" as part of the video series launched by Bristol Composites Institute, uploaded to YouTube on 7th February 2022 (615 views 2024-03-12, 417 views 2023-03-15, 232 views 2022-03-15).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022,2023,2024
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i20NEQ8luDA
 
Description LP Future Composite Hub 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact LP gave an oral presentation in-person on 6th September 2023 at the EPSRC Future Composites Manufacturing Research Hub Annual Open Day 2023 held in Milton Keynes, UK on the topic "NextCOMP: Human-Robot Collaborative Manufacture of Hierarchical Composites".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://cimcomp.ac.uk/hub-news/epsrc-future-composites-manufacturing-research-hub-to-host-annual-ope...
 
Description LP ICCM23 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact LP gave an oral presentation in-person on 2nd August 2023 at the 23rd International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM23) held in Belfast, Northern Ireland on the topic "Overbraiding of pultruded rods for hierarchical composites".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://iccm-central.org/Proceedings/ICCM23proceedings/papers/ICCM23_Full_Paper_348.pdf
 
Description LP ICMAC 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact LP gave an oral presentation in-person on 14th September 2022 at the International Conference on Manufacturing of Advanced Composites 2022 (ICMAC) held in Sheffield, United Kingdom on the topic "Manufacturing of pultruded rod based hierarchical composite structural members".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description LP ICS 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact LP gave an oral presentation in-person on 6th September 2023 at the International Composites Summit 2023 held in Milton Keynes, UK on the topic "Manufacturing Novel Hierarchical Composites".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://youtu.be/zlAm8eUwDks
 
Description LP OU Fusion Newsletter Winter 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact LP featured article "A physicist engineers bio-inspired composites" in OU Fusion - The Open University Physics and Astronomy Society (Affiliated to the Institute of Physics) Newsletter, Vol. 22, Issue No. 2 Winter 2023-24.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.oufusion.org/
 
Description MS The Fibre Soc Spring Meeting 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact MS gave an oral presentation in-person on 31st May 2022 at The Fiber Society Spring Meeting 2022, held between 30-31 May and 1 June 2022, Leuven, Belgium.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description MW ICCM23 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact MW gave an oral presentation in-person on 1st August 2023 at the 23rd International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM23) held in Belfast, Northern Ireland on the topic "Measuring compressive behavior of composites by flexural tests".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://iccm-central.org/Proceedings/ICCM23proceedings/papers/ICCM23_PPT_676.pdf
 
Description MW UoB Annual Meeting 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact MW delivered a talk at the joint Vestas/National Composite Centre/University of Bristol Annual Meeting which was held on the16th May 2022.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description ND SAMPE Competition 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact ND competed in SAMPE UKIC (Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering UK & Ireland Chapter) and EPSRC Future Composites Manufacturing Research Hub (CIMPComp) "Design and Make" Competition Launched 20th September 2023 the finals on the 2nd November 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://fluency-group.com/sampe-uk-ireland-and-cimcomp-announce-the-launch-of-design-and-make-compet...
 
Description NextCOMP @ Westbury on Trym Primary Academy 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Approximately 420 schoolchildren from Westbury on Trym Primary Academy, Bristol learned some fascinating things about composites and had a lot of fun using the NextCOMP Crusher activity on the 23rd March 2023. Designed for Key Stage 2, the activity was adapted in situ so that all schoolchildren (and their teaching staff) could enjoy it, from Reception up to Year 6. Lead by the very proactive and enthusiastic staff at the school, following a whole school assembly introducing the activity, the children were excited to manufacture and test their jelly and pasta composites and made discoveries about composites as they did so. The NextCOMP Crusher Key Stage 2 Schools Activity was developed by NextCOMP Team members ElG (PhD student on the Centre for Doctoral Training in Composites Science, Engineering and Manufacturing) and BZ (Post Doctoral Researcher) as part of the FUTURES festival of Discovery.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://x.com/WoTAcademy/status/1638888923865784321?s=20
 
Description NextCOMP GERF 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact The Great Exhibition Road Festival NextCOMP stand, Composites: Feeling the crush in compression, over the weekend of 17th to 18th June 2023 HK/CS/HA/RG/DB/GQ/STP/SP/MS participated with thousands of interested visitors attending the stall during the festival which attracted over 50,000 visitors.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/245553/all-festival/
 
Description NextCOMP LinkedIn 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact A LinkedIn group was made for the advertisement of the programme and engagement of the professional research and industrial community. (172 members 2024-03-12)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021,2022,2023,2024
URL https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8968232/
 
Description NextCOMP Next Generation Fibre-Reinforced Composites - Bristol Composites Institute Blog 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact The blog highlighted the NextCOMP programme to those involved with the Bristol Composite Institute, University of Bristol as part of a newsletter, posed on 2022-03-24.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://composites.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2022/03/24/nextcomp-next-generation-fibre-reinforced-composit...
 
Description NextCOMP Team Film 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact A film introducing the NextCOMP programme and members discussing the development of next generation fibre composite materials, uploaded to YouTube 1st March 2022 (606 views 2024-03-12, 395 views 2023-03-15).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022,2023,2024
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6lwX54Be_s
 
Description NextCOMP Twitter 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact A programme Twitter social media channel was created to highlight ongoing activities and to highlight recruitment opportunities to the project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021,2022,2023,2024
URL https://twitter.com/NextCOMP_ac_uk
 
Description NextCOMP YB-YCOW Discover Composites 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact NextCOMP worked with the Young Bristol Youth Club on Wheels and co-produced "Discover Composites" session targeted at the Youth Club on Wheels audience. Working with our partner Young Bristol, NextCOMP Team developed the content for the sessions and then delivered four separate sessions between October to December 2023 to young people in three areas of Bristol with low higher education participation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://composites.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2023/11/23/bringing-composites-to-street-youth-work
 
Description NextCOMP and IDC Teams Attend FUTURES 2022 - Bristol Composites Institute Blog 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact The blog on NextCOMP and IDC Teams Attend FUTURES 2022 highlighted the public engagement activity of the programme with the FUTURES European Researchers Night at the Up late on the SS Great Britain, posted 2023-10-03. The blog was shared through a newsletter to the members of the Bristol Composites Institute, University of Bristol.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://composites.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2022/10/03/nextcomp-and-idc-teams-attend-futures-2022/
 
Description NextCOMP and YB 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact A news article on the Young Bristol website which is a youth charity that works to offer a choice of opportunities and experiences for all young people. The article highlighted the pilot scheme "Discover Composites!" and activities developed by NextCOMP and the creation of a "workshop in a box".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://youngbristol.com/2023/12/12/engineers-discover-composites
 
Description NextCOMP at Festival of Nature 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact The NextCOMP stand "Woodpeckers and Wind Turbines: How nature inspires novel materials" stand at the Festival of Nature over the weekend of 17th and 18th June 2023 in conjunction with the Bristol Natural History Consortium at Millennium Square in the centre of Bristol. Thousands of interested visitors attended the event, with RT/IH/JoG/LP/BZ/CW/IL/ArT/JR/XW and other members of the Team including LL who was an intern in the project joining in for the event.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://composites.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2023/06/23/crushing-composites-nextcomp-and-bci-fun-at-festiv...
 
Description NextCOMP at Futures Up Late at SS Great Britan 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact NextCOMP stand "Crushing it: Be a Composites Engineer" at the FUTURES Up late at SS Great Britain 29th September 2023 with RT/IH/JoG/LP/IN/CW/XH/S and Centre for Doctoral Training student MS and UG student RS participating. The event had a family-friendly focus with ages 8-12 targeted to interact with and hands-on exhibits showcasing cutting-edge research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.ssgreatbritain.org/things-to-do/futures-up-late
 
Description Norwood School ICL Visit 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact A visit from young people across a range of ages and students from The Norwood School were on site at Imperial College London on the 18 April 2023. Visitors were given a behind the scenes tour led by EG of the research labs which was a highlight for many, as it helped them to see for themselves some of the exciting aspects of a career in research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/244292/aeronautics-inspires-next-generation-engineers
 
Description OD NextCOMP Invited Lecture 2024 Youtube 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact A recording of the NextCOMP Invited Lecture Series 2024 delivered by OD titled, "Micro and nanomechanical testing of ceramics and composites" given virtually on 10th January 2024 was uploaded to YouTube 11th March 2024, to raise awareness about the project and OD's research (15 views 2024-03-12).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BnDTcFOruY
 
Description OGD Invited Lecture 2024 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A NextCOMP Invited Lecture was delivered by OGD on 10th January 2024 at Imperial College London. The lecture on the topic of "Micro and nanomechanical testing of ceramics and composites" was held hybrid format with ~70 attendees from around the world, the talk was informative and enjoyed by all with an insightful questions and answers session at the end.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://www.nextcomp.ac.uk/pages/news.html
 
Description RG ICCM23 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact RG gave an oral presentation in-person on 2nd August 2023 at the 23rd International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM23) held in Belfast, Northern Ireland on the topic "The effect of nacre-inspired coating on the compression behaviour of carbon fibre composite".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://iccm-central.org/Proceedings/ICCM23proceedings/papers/ICCM23_Full_Paper_346.pdf
 
Description RT Celebrating 15 years Anniversary of Bristol Composites UTC 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact RT spoke at the Celebrating 15 years Anniversary of Bristol Composites University Technology Centre (UTC), an event for recognising the University of Bristol and Bristol Composites Institute which was held on the 6th September 2022.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description RT Composites World Part 1 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact RT contributed towards an article in Composites World (compositesworld.com) "Drawing design cues from nature: Designing for biomimetic composites, Part 1" by Grace Nehls, published 10/09/2022.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.compositesworld.com/articles/drawing-design-cues-from-nature-designing-for-biomimetic-co...
 
Description RT Composites World Part 2 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact RT contributed towards an article in Composites World (compositesworld.com) "Drawing design cues from nature: Designing for biomimetic composites, Part 2" by Grace Nehls, published 16/12/2022.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.compositesworld.com/articles/drawing-design-cues-from-nature-designing-for-biomimetic-co...
 
Description RT Crusher Demo 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact An Instagram video post with RT discussing composite materials and demonstrating the NextCOMP Crusher Outreach Demonstrator of samples made with jelly and dry spaghetti.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023,2024
URL https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0O8ghbMSwm
 
Description RV NextCOMP Annual Lecture 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The NextCOMP Annual Lecture was delivered by RV on 3rd August 2022 at Imperial College London on the topic of "From precursor to the composite: How new carbon fibre and its composites will contribute to a more sustainable future". The lecture was held in-person and virtually with ca. 55 attendees from around the world, the talk was informative and enjoyed by all with an insightful questions and answers session at the end.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.nextcomp.ac.uk/pages/news.html
 
Description RV NextCOMP Annual Lecture 2022 Youtube 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact A recording of the NextCOMP Annual Lecture 2022 delivered by RV titled, "From precursor to the composite: How new carbon fibre and its composites will contribute to a more sustainable future" given live on 3rd August 2022 was uploaded to Youtube 23rd November 2022, to raise awareness about the project and RV's research (42 views 2024-03-12, 26 views 2023-03-15).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022,2023,2024
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihprZsUsrww
 
Description SP ICCM23 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact SP gave an oral presentation in-person on 1st August 2023 at the 23rd International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM23) held in Belfast, Northern Ireland on the topic "The role of constituents on the compressive strength of composites".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://iccm-central.org/Proceedings/ICCM23proceedings/papers/ICCM23_PPT_583.pdf
 
Description SP US-JAPAN/EU-JAPAN Joint Conference on Composite Materials 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact SP gave an oral presentation on 21st July 2022 at the 18th European Mechanics of Materials Conference (EMMC18) held between 20-22 July 2022, in Sendai, Japan, on the topic of "The role of constituents on the compressive strength of composites".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL http://www.plum.mech.tohoku.ac.jp/USEU-JAPAN_2020/Doc/The_US-JAPAN_EU-JAPAN_joint_Conference_on_Comp...
 
Description TG CompTest 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact TG gave an oral presentation in-person on 31st May 2023 at the 11th International Conference on Composite Testing and Model Identification (CompTest 2023) held in Girona, Spain on the topic "Arresting propagating kinkbands: failure mechanisms under longitudinal compression of carbon-boron fibre hybrids".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://dugi-doc.udg.edu/handle/10256/23106
 
Description TG CompTest 2023 video 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A recording of presentation given by TG at the 11th International Conference on Composite Testing and Model Identification (CompTest 2023) titled, "Arresting propagating kinkbands: Failure mechanisms under longitudinal compression of carbon-boron fibre hybrids" given live on 31st May 2023 was uploaded by the conference organisers for general access 23rd June 2023. Parent article DOI: https://doi.org/10256/23106 and Handle http://hdl.handle.net/10256/23106.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023,2024
URL http://hdl.handle.net/10256.1/7221
 
Description TG Composites2023 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact TG gave an oral presentation in-person on 14th September 2023 at the 9th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS) Thematic - Composites 2023 held in Sicily, Italy on the topic "A Novel Nacre-Inspired CFRP Microstructure for
Improved Strain to Failure under In-Plane Compression".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://composites2023.cimne.com
 
Description TG ECCM20 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact TG gave an oral presentation in-person on 27th June 2022 at the 20th European Conference on Composite Materials (ECCM20) held between June 26-30 2022 in Lausanne, Switzerland on the topic "A novel bio-inspired microstructure for progressive compressive failure in multidirectional composite laminates".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description TG ICCM23 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact TG gave an oral presentation in-person on 1st August 2023 at the 23rd International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM23) held in Belfast, Northern Ireland on the topic "Bio-inspired multidirectional laminates for improved compressive performance".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://iccm-central.org/Proceedings/ICCM23proceedings/papers/ICCM23_Full_Paper_343.pdf
 
Description TK ICCM23 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact TK gave an oral presentation in-person on 1st August 2023 at the 23rd International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM23) held in Belfast, Northern Ireland on the topic "Compressive failure of boron-carbon fibre hybrid composites: A detailed experimental study".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://iccm-central.org/Proceedings/ICCM23proceedings/papers/ICCM23_Full_Paper_337.pdf
 
Description VM (EAB) inaugural NextCOMP Annual Lecture 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The inaugural NextCOMP Annual Lecture was delivered by VM on 8th July 2021, who is a member of the External Advisory Board for NextCOMP. The lecture was held virtually with ~70 attendees from around the world, the talk was informative and enjoyed by all with an insightful questions and answers session at the end.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.nextcomp.ac.uk/pages/news.html
 
Description VM (EAB) inaugural NextCOMP Annual Lecture 2021 Youtube 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact A recording of the inaugural NextCOMP Annual Lecture delivered by VM titled, "Composites for a More Sustainable Future... Tough, Healable, Recyclable?" given live on 8th July 2021 was uploaded to Youtube 22nd November 2021, to raise awareness about the project and the EAB member research (534 views 2024-03-12, 407 views 2023-03-15, 185 views 2022-03-15).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021,2022,2023,2024
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYq4hQwG5AI
 
Description nextcomp.ac.uk website 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact A dedicated project website for public engagement to share ongoing research, to act as a depository for films, media articles, and publications, and to highlight recruitment opportunities.

Website statistics;

2021-2022 [data complied 2022-03-15]
Overall site visits: +450 unique users
Most visited page*: Opportunities +650 views
Demographic: +60 countries

2022-2023 [data complied 2023-03-15]
Overall site visits: +1450 unique users
Most visited page*: Opportunities +1200 views
Demographic: 95 countries

2023-2024 [data complied 2023-03-12]
Overall site visits: +850 unique users
Most visited page*: News +635 views
Demographic: +60 countries

*omitting landing page /index.html
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021,2022,2023,2024
URL https://www.nextcomp.ac.uk/