High Performance Ductile Composite Technology (HiPerDuCT)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Bristol
Department Name: Aerospace Engineering
Abstract
Conventional composites such as carbon fibre reinforced plastics have outstanding mechanical properties: high strength and stiffness, low weight, and low susceptibility to fatigue and corrosion. Composites are truly the materials of the future, their properties can be tailored to particular applications and capabilities for sensing, changing shape or self healing can also be included. Their use is rising exponentially, continuing to replace or augment traditional materials. A key example is the construction of new large aircraft, such as the Boeing 787 and Airbus A350, mainly from carbon fibre composites. At the same time, there is rapid expansion of composite use in applications such as wind turbine blades, sporting goods and civil engineering infrastructure.Despite this progress, a fundamental and as yet unresolved limitation of current composites is their inherent brittleness. Failure is usually sudden and catastrophic, with little or no warning or capacity to carry load afterwards. A related problem is their susceptibility to impact damage, which can drastically reduce the strength, without any visible warning. Structures that look fine can fail suddenly at loads much lower than expected. As a result complex maintenance procedures are required and a significantly greater safety margin than for other materials. Our vision is to create a paradigm shift by realising a new generation of high performance composites that overcome the key limitation of conventional composites: their inherent lack of ductility. We will design, manufacture and evaluate a range of composite systems with the ability to fail gradually, undergoing large deformations whilst still carrying load. Energy will be absorbed by ductile or pseudo-ductile response, analogous to yielding in metals, with strength and stiffness maintained, and clear evidence of damage. This will eliminate the need for very low design strains to cater for barely visible impact damage, providing a step change in composite performance, as well as overcoming the intrinsic brittleness that is a major barrier to their wider adoption. These materials will provide greater reliability and safety, together with reduced design and maintenance requirements, and longer service life. True ductility will allow new manufacturing methods, such as press forming, that offer high volumes and greater flexibility.To achieve such an ambitious outcome will require a concerted effort to develop new composite constituents and exploit novel architectures. The programme will scope, prioritise, develop, and combine these approaches, to achieve High Performance Ductile Composite Technology (HiPerDuCT).
Planned Impact
This highly ambitious, multi-disciplinary, and innovative programme is designed to move polymer composite structures in a fundamentally new direction. The goal is not only to improve performance and reduce cost, but crucially to introduce composites to a wide range of new applications, where use is currently limited by design complexity, processing challenges, ultimate failure mechanism, or maintenance demands. Relevant sectors include, aerospace, offshore, renewables, and high performance sports, but will extend to consumer goods, conventional automotive and other ground transport, civil engineering and the chemical industry. A range of stakeholders will benefit: Companies working in the composites field, either supplying materials or using them to manufacture structures, will gain access to new technology, either through directly licensing intellectual property developed during the programme, or through subsequent co-development projects. Technology transfer will be facilitated by specialist teams at Imperial (Innovations Ltd) and Bristol (Research & Enterprise Development), who have extensive experience in balancing the need to protect inventions while encouraging commercial exploitation. Industrial partners will thus gain new capabilities allowing them to develop new products, leading to a competitive advantage, and ultimately, UK wealth creation. 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 ductile composites. This grouping will foster future collaborations, encouraging UK R&D efforts, as well as attracting inward international investment. In addition, there are a variety of manufacturing companies, for example, in civil engineering, the automotive and consumer goods sectors, who do not routinely use composites. The simpler processing and service requirements of HiPerDuCT, will provide a fundamentally new materials opportunity; 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. More generally, society will benefit from the emergence of HiPerDuCT that provide improved performance, safety, & environmental sustainability in a variety of contexts. Ductile composites intrinsically improve safety by avoiding catastrophic failure, and minimising inspection requirements. The associated weight reduction 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. By simplifying processing and improving lifetime, HiPerDuCT will offer reduced waste; some embodiments may enable direct recycling or reuse, a long-term composite goal. Through commercialisation activities, the academic institutions will benefit from additional revenue that they invest to bring forward other new technologies, through Imperial Innovations and Bristol RED. Composite materials are a high profile and widely monitored technology. With the success of the project, the UK will be making a clear and valuable contribution to their global implementation, which will enhance our reputation in the area, and help to attract both further investment and interactions with world-leading organisations and individuals. 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.
Organisations
- University of Bristol (Lead Research Organisation)
- ELG Carbon Fibre Ltd (Collaboration)
- Rolls Royce Group Plc (Collaboration)
- Hexcel Composites Ltd (Collaboration)
- National Composites Centre (NCC) (Collaboration)
- University of Leuven (Collaboration)
- BAE Systems (United Kingdom) (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Halliburton Energy Services (Project Partner)
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Project Partner)
- Rolls-Royce (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Hexcel (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Mouchel (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Vestas Blades (Tecnology) UK Ltd (Project Partner)
Publications
Czél G
(2023)
Combined effect of moisture and test temperature on the pseudo-ductility of thin-ply carbon/epoxy-glass/epoxy hybrid composites
in Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing
Czél G.
(2020)
The effect of test temperature on the pseudo-ductility of thin-ply hybrid composites
in ECCM 2018 - 18th European Conference on Composite Materials
Czél G.
(2016)
Demonstration of pseudo-ductility in quasi-isotropic laminates comprising thin-ply UD carbon/epoxy hybrid sub-laminates
in ECCM 2016 - Proceeding of the 17th European Conference on Composite Materials
Czél G.
(2013)
Study of non-linear tensile behaviour of discontinuous carbon-epoxy prepreg composites
in ICCM International Conferences on Composite Materials
De Luca F
(2018)
Increasing carbon fiber composite strength with a nanostructured "brick-and-mortar" interphase
in Materials Horizons
De Luca F
(2018)
"Brick-and-Mortar" Nanostructured Interphase for Glass-Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites.
in ACS applied materials & interfaces
De Luca F
(2015)
Nacre-nanomimetics: Strong, Stiff, and Plastic.
in ACS applied materials & interfaces
Description | Composites have become established as very high performance materials and continue to expand rapidly into new markets and applications. However a fundamental limitation of current composites is their inherent brittleness. Failure is usually sudden and catastrophic, with little warning or residual load carrying capacity. Therefore the aims of HiPerDuCT are to design, manufacture and evaluate a range of composite systems with a ductile or pseudo-ductile response, while maintaining the strength and stiffness for which composites are so highly prized. The programme has investigated the different potential mechanisms identified for creating more gradual failure and successfully demonstrated pseudo-ductility in all of them. A key measure used to assess progress is pseudo-ductile strain, defined as the difference between the final failure strain, and the elastic strain at the same stress. Research has focussed on tensile loading, primarily of unidirectional materials. Key results so far include: - Thin carbon angle plies have been shown to rotate under load producing 1.5% pseudo-ductile strain without delaminating and a maximum stress of 936 MPa. - Wavy ply sandwich composites have been created with up to 9% strain at the structural level and high energy absorption (patent submitted). - Co-mingling of different fibre types has been achieved, giving a more gradual failure with 14% increase in maximum strain. - A new mechanism of ply fragmentation has been demonstrated in thin ply hybrids, producing a non-linear stress-strain response with a plateau and pseudo-ductile strains of up to 2.7%.Pseudo-ductile response has also been achieved in compression. These materials show notch insensitivity, and behave well under fatigue loading. - Model systems of discontinuous prepreg have shown the potential for additional strain via slip at the interfaces. - A novel manufacturing process has been developed allowing high volume fraction highly aligned discontinuous fibre composites to be produced (patent submitted). These have shown record modulus and strength for single materials, approaching those of continuous fibre composites. Excellent potential for pseudo-ductility has been demonstrated based on the ability to achieve novel architectures with different fibre types, lengths and distributions. This technology is currently being investigated with a large carbon fibre recycling company. - Good progress has been made towards creating ductile nanotube fibres that show high initial modulus and strains to failure of several hundred %. - Considerable modelling of the mechanisms has been undertaken, giving a good understanding of the further developments necessary to achieve high performance ductile composites. In particular, strain hardening has been identified as a characteristic feature of the matrix required to ensure a stable ductile response and successful coupling between length scales. - Two new mechanisms (both under consideration for patenting), and associated process technologies have been developed to introduce strain hardening behaviour during pull-out of fibre fragments. - Two patents have been submitted for a novel composite strain sensor which exploits material properties of a carbon/glass sandwich to give a visual indication of static overload, and excessive fatigue loading. - A patent has been submitted for a new sizing concept that modifies the failure mode of carbon fibre composites, and increases their absolute tensile strength. |
Exploitation Route | Composites are increasingly being used in aerospace and other applications, such as automotive components, wind turbine blades, sporting goods and civil engineering. Despite this progress, a fundamental limitation of current composites is their inherent brittleness. Failure is usually sudden and catastrophic, with little warning or residual load carrying capacity. Interesting results across the themes have been encouraging and suggest that highly performing ductile or pseudo-ductile composites can indeed be achieved. These could have applications in all the domains currently using high performing composites. Shorter term routes to exploiting specific aspects of the technology developed in HiPerDuCT include i) in the recycling of carbon fibre into higher added-value products, ii) in any application requiring a low-cost method of visually demonstrating that a component has been subject to an overload condition and iii) in safety critical applications of composites where more gradual failure may be beneficial, including aerospace, automotive and sporting goods. |
Sectors | Aerospace Defence and Marine Chemicals Construction Environment Leisure Activities including Sports Recreation and Tourism Manufacturing including Industrial Biotechology Transport |
URL | http://www.hiperduct.ac.uk/ |
Description | Pseudo-ductile hybrids continue to generate significant interest and were being further explored as part of the HiFiSyn Marie Curie ITN on hybrid composites led by KU Leuven. Rolls-Royce are very interested in the application of hybrid composites to engine components, which is being investigated in the Aerospace Technology Institute FANDANGO programme between Bristol, Imperial and Oxford University, where high speed impact tests are being conducted. The composite strain overload and fatigue sensor technology that gave rise to two patents has been evaluated by a number of companies and the National Composites Centre (NCC) via a Technology Pull-Through (TPT) project. An Innovate UK proposal has been submitted with several of these companies to further develop the technology and apply it to industrial products. A new sizing concept was also developed that modifies the failure mode of carbon fibre composites, and increases their absolute tensile strength. The technology has been patented and is being promoted with relevant companies, and is under consideration by a commercial sizing manufacturer. The HiPerDiF technology for aligning short fibres has been scaled up to a 4-metre long, semi-automated, demonstration facility that has been installed at NCC, supported by a further £1M EPSRC grant, Impact Acceleration Account funding and NCC's TPT programme. It has been attracting significant industrial interest, particularly the potential to create high value products from recycled fibres, and has been employed with the NCC core programme using reclaimed fibres. A spin-out company (Lineat Composites) has been established to exploit the technology as aligned formable fibre technology (AFFTTM), and has already gained several regional and national awards (CompositesUK, SW England Start Up Award). |
First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Environment,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Other |
Impact Types | Economic |
Description | Building Global Engagements in Research |
Amount | £2,800 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2013 |
End | 03/2013 |
Description | EPSRC - High Performance Discontinuous Fibre Composites - a sustainable route to the next generation of composites |
Amount | £1,400,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/P027393/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 05/2017 |
End | 06/2020 |
Description | EPSRC IAA Award - Composite Strain Sensor Market Search |
Amount | £15,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | University of Bristol |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2016 |
End | 03/2017 |
Description | EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account - ELG |
Amount | £15,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2015 |
End | 07/2016 |
Title | DIC Data - Meisam |
Description | The underlying data presented in the paper "Energy dissipation during delamination in composite materials-An experimental assessment of the cohesive law and the stress-strain field ahead of a crack tip", by Meisam Jalalvand, Gergely Czél, Jonathan D Fuller, Michael R Wisnom, Luis P Canal, Carlos D González, Javier LLorca, Composites Science and Technology, includes: 1. X and Y Coordinates of the Digital Image Correlation facets. - Displacement of facets centre from Digital Image Correlation. - Shear strain distribution over the glass/epoxy and carbon/epoxy layers. - Shear stress distribution at the interface. - Separation at the interface. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | N/A - only recently published |
URL | https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/91unnvqibajq1kf7fhsat28yv |
Description | Collaboration with KU Leuven |
Organisation | University of Leuven |
Country | Belgium |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We have supplied aligned discontinuous fibre preforms for reinforcing polypropylene composites Also results for strength of hybrid composites to use in their modelling work. |
Collaborator Contribution | KUL have manufactured and tested discontinuous carbon fibre polypropylene composites including our materials. They have correlated their hybrid strength models against our test results. |
Impact | Joint paper on hybrid effect: Wisnom MR, Czel G, Swolfs Y, Jalalvand M, Gorbatikh L, Verpoest I. Hybrid effects in thin ply carbon/glass unidirectional laminates: accurate experimental determination and prediction. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing. 2016, 88, 131-139. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesa.2016.04.014 |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | ELG collaboration |
Organisation | ELG Carbon Fibre Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Using HiPerDIF machine to manufacture and test samples from recycled fibre to determine viability of the machine as a quality control device |
Collaborator Contribution | - Materials - Expertise/Knowledge |
Impact | - Increased knowledge of quality control process for recycled carbon fibre - Further development of our knowledge of machine characteristics - Further collaboration leading to potential industrial exploitation of the technology |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | HiPerDuCT Industrial Partners |
Organisation | BAE Systems |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Presentations of latest results. |
Collaborator Contribution | Industrial partners attend Industry update meetings and contribute to the Advisory board which helps set future research direction. |
Impact | - Shaped direction of research - Supplied material - Contributed to workshops, meetings etc. |
Start Year | 2011 |
Description | HiPerDuCT Industrial Partners |
Organisation | Hexcel Composites Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Presentations of latest results. |
Collaborator Contribution | Industrial partners attend Industry update meetings and contribute to the Advisory board which helps set future research direction. |
Impact | - Shaped direction of research - Supplied material - Contributed to workshops, meetings etc. |
Start Year | 2011 |
Description | HiPerDuCT Industrial Partners |
Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Presentations of latest results. |
Collaborator Contribution | Industrial partners attend Industry update meetings and contribute to the Advisory board which helps set future research direction. |
Impact | - Shaped direction of research - Supplied material - Contributed to workshops, meetings etc. |
Start Year | 2011 |
Description | NCC (National Composites Centre) Technology Pull Through Project |
Organisation | National Composites Centre (NCC) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | A collaborative project between NCC and University of Bristol is aiming to prove and scale the work on the strain sensor and then test the sensors with a international company who are very interested in the technology. |
Collaborator Contribution | NCC are taking the lab scale work and re-producing the sensors and testing the results at a larger scale. |
Impact | Moving research out from the lab and increasing its technology readiness levels. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Title | COMPOSITE MATERIAL SUITABLE FOR A MORPHING SKIN |
Description | A morphing skin for an air vehicle structure, the skin being formed by a composite material (1) comprising: a multiplicity of fibres (3), a matrix (5) incorporating the fibres, and a thermo-sensitive material (7) such as a thermo-plastic. The thermo-sensitive material (7) is reversibly transitionable in response to a change in temperature, between (i) an ambient temperature mode in which the thermo-sensitive material is capable of transferring loads in the composite material, and (ii) a heated mode in which the ability of the thermo-sensitive material to transfer the loads is reduced. This allows the stiffness of the skin to be temporarily reduced to enable the skin to be morphed into a different shape. |
IP Reference | WO2013144639 |
Protection | Patent application published |
Year Protection Granted | 2013 |
Licensed | No |
Impact | - |
Title | Method and apparatus for aligning discontinuous fibres |
Description | A new method has been developed to enable highly aligned discontinuous fibre composites to be manufactured. |
IP Reference | GB1306762.4 |
Protection | Patent application published |
Year Protection Granted | 2013 |
Licensed | No |
Impact | We are currently working with a large Carbon Fibre Recycling company to explore applications and scale-up of this technology. We have also successfully applied for further EPSRC funding, which we expect will help to generate further commercial opportunities for the technology. |
Title | Nacre-like decorated fibre for hierarchical ductile composite |
Description | It has been determined that fibres may be provided with a nanostructured coating comprising alternating nanoplatelet and polymer layers, the nanoplatelet layers may have an organised structure and that such layers of nanoplatelets and softer polymer give a coating with improved properties. Composite materials comprising such coated fibres and a matrix, such as a polymeric matrix, provide for increased toughness and strength of composite materials. Thus, the invention provides fibres coated with a nanostructured coating. |
IP Reference | GB1621494.2 |
Protection | Patent application published |
Year Protection Granted | 2016 |
Licensed | No |
Impact | N/A |
Title | Sensor |
Description | A sensor 10 suitable for detecting that a structure 18 has been subjected to a strain overload condition, wherein the sensor comprises: a transparent layer 12; and a first sensing element 14 with a first surface bonded to the transparent layer via a first coupling interface CI, and a second surface arranged to be secured to the structure via a second coupling interface such that deformation of the structure causes deformation of the first sensing element, wherein the first sensing element has a lower strain to failure value than the transparent layer, such that upon the structure being subjected to a first strain, the sensing element will fail but the transparent layer will not fail, causing a visible change in the external appearance of the sensor through the failure of the first sensing element. The failure may be caused by fracture and decoupling of the first sensing element from the transparent layer. The element may comprise fibre reinforced composite material, e.g. carbon fibre reinforced composite material. The transparent layer may be colour coded such that failure of the element from the transparent layer displays a given colour. |
IP Reference | GB2544792 |
Protection | Patent granted |
Year Protection Granted | 2017 |
Licensed | Commercial In Confidence |
Impact | We are actively pursuing several routes that could produce significant impacts. NCC technology pull-through programme funded. |
Title | Visual indicator to display number of loading cycles that a structure has undergone |
Description | A sensor 10 suitable for detecting that a structure 18 has been subjected to a strain overload condition, wherein the sensor comprises: a transparent layer 12; and a first sensing element 14 with a first surface bonded to the transparent layer via a first coupling interface CI, and a second surface arranged to be secured to the structure via a second coupling interface such that deformation of the structure causes deformation of the first sensing element, wherein the first sensing element has a lower strain to failure value than the transparent layer, such that upon the structure being subjected to a first strain, the sensing element will fail but the transparent layer will not fail, causing a visible change in the external appearance of the sensor through the failure of the first sensing element. The failure may be caused by fracture and decoupling of the first sensing element from the transparent layer. The element may comprise fibre reinforced composite material, e.g. carbon fibre reinforced composite material. The transparent layer may be colour coded such that failure of the element from the transparent layer displays a given colour. |
IP Reference | GB1700841.8 |
Protection | Patent granted |
Year Protection Granted | 2017 |
Licensed | No |
Impact | A sensor 10 suitable for detecting that a structure 18 has been subjected to a strain overload condition, wherein the sensor comprises: a transparent layer 12; and a first sensing element 14 with a first surface bonded to the transparent layer via a first coupling interface CI, and a second surface arranged to be secured to the structure via a second coupling interface such that deformation of the structure causes deformation of the first sensing element, wherein the first sensing element has a lower strain to failure value than the transparent layer, such that upon the structure being subjected to a first strain, the sensing element will fail but the transparent layer will not fail, causing a visible change in the external appearance of the sensor through the failure of the first sensing element. The failure may be caused by fracture and decoupling of the first sensing element from the transparent layer. The element may comprise fibre reinforced composite material, e.g. carbon fibre reinforced composite material. The transparent layer may be colour coded such that failure of the element from the transparent layer displays a given colour. |
Title | Wavy Sandwich Structural composite material |
Description | This patent proposes a wavy-ply sandwich structure with composite skins and a crushable core. Under tensile loading, the wavy-ply structure exhibits large deformations (through unfolding of the wavy composite skins) and high energy-absorption (through crushing of the foam core cells), whilst maintaining high specific ultimate strength. |
IP Reference | GB1405824.2 |
Protection | Patent application published |
Year Protection Granted | 2014 |
Licensed | No |
Impact | N/A |
Title | Visual Strain Overload Sensor |
Description | Fragmenting hybrid laminates create a pseudo-ductile response and a striped pattern of fractures and delaminations which can be used as a simple visual strain overload sensor. This novel hybrid composite sensor may be used as an indicator patch co- cured with composite components or retrofitted/bonded onto the surface of composite or metal components, or be incorporated as an integral load-carrying surface layer with sensing functionality. Its advantages over conventional strain gauges include: - Very robust - Wireless and offline - Low cost - Lightweight - Requires no special training to read - Can be a whole surface layer, or applied as a patch |
Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
Year Produced | 2015 |
Impact | We are currently actively exploring commercialisation options with a range of organisations in a number of different domains for this patent-pending technology. |
Description | Advanced Engineering Show 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Attendance at the Advanced Engineering Show, Birmingham, November 2016. We used the opportunity to showcase a HiPerDuCT output, in the form of the novel strain overload sensor, which we demonstrated on a bicycle handlebar. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.easyfairs.com/events_216/advanced-engineering-2016_83352/advanced-engineering-2016_84103/ |
Description | Advanced Engineering Show 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Two examples of research outputs were demonstrated: 1) A novel composite strain overload sensor embedded in a composite skateboard 2) A lab scale demonstration for producing High Performance Discontinuous Fibre Composites. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.easyfairs.com/advanced-engineering-2018/advanced-engineering-2018/ |
Description | Advisory Board meetings |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Annual meeting of HiPerDuCT Advisory board including Industrial and academic members. Purpose is to discuss findings and future research direction and allow participants to shape future direction. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017 |
Description | Composites in Sport conference |
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 | We presented the project and selected outcomes and their application in sporting goods. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://compositesinsport.com |
Description | Cyclitech Conference presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Cyclitech was the first international conference on bicycle technology and attacted a large number of participants from the bicycle industry including manufacturers and resellers. We presented several aspects of HiPerDuCT technology to this new audience. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/137476 |
Description | HiPerDuCT Industrial Engagement Day 2015 |
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 | An industrial engagement day saw c. 50 participants from a range of sectors come together at the National Composites Centre to learn about the HiPerDuCT Programme's latest results and participate in a workshop session to help shape future research directions Presentations covering selected aspects of the programme: - Pseudo-ductility of thin ply angle-ply laminates - Dr Jonathan Fuller - Pseudo-ductile hybrid composites - Dr Gergely Czel - HiPerDiF manufacturing method: from ductile hybrids to recycled short fibre composites - Dr HaNa Yu - Wavy-ply sandwich structure for large deformations and energy absorption - Prof. Paul Robinson Workshop session covering the following questions: - What current composite designs or features would benefit from ductility? - Which aspects of the HiPerDuCT programme would be of most interest? - What applications look promising? - What needs to be done to make this work for you? |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2017 |
Description | Industry Update Event |
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 | An industry update event was held where the project presented research outcomes with representatives from twenty companies who shared their requirements for ductility in composites and helped to shape future research plans by identifying further challenges and potential applications in their sectors. The talks highlighted areas where the project had generated new IP or where there were opportunities for technology transfer. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Industry update meetings |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Meeting of HiPerDuCT Industrial partners. Purpose is to discuss findings and future research direction and allow participants to shape future direction. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2013,2014,2015,2016 |
Description | Participation in JEC Composites Trade Show |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The University of Bristol have a presence at JEC, the world's largest composite materials trade show, held in Paris, France 14-16th March 2017. On our stand on the Department for International Trade UK Pavilion, we are showcasing two of the project outputs - the novel composite strain overload sensor, and the HiPerDiF short-fibre alignment technology (both patent-pending). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
URL | http://www.jeccomposites.com/events/jec-world-2017 |
Description | Participation in JEC Composites Trade Show 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The University of Bristol have a presence at JEC together with the NCC, the world's largest composite materials trade show, held in Paris, France 6th to 8th March 2018. On our stand on the Department for International Trade UK Pavilion, we are showcasing outputs from the project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Visit to Airbus, Bristol, UK |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Visit to Airbus with fellow PhD students to showcase PhD work to senior employees and Aerospace Engineering experts. The event was one of a series of industrial visits co-ordinated by the ACCIS CDT as part of the EPSRC's Impact Acceleration Account Scheme, which aims to widen participation in business engagement and knowledge exchange. Ian Lane, Senior Airbus Expert and Visiting Industrial Professor in the Faculty of Engineering, reported that bringing Airbus experts and the University of Bristol team together for an open interactive discussion was a great way to meet the real people behind the research work and the facilitated an atmosphere of creative exchange. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-uLoUh8nk8&list=PLhlRlu-kcTox-ylt0QsNB0nCcOtPIHN6z&index=7 |
Description | 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 | We have redesigned the project website, and created specific resources for both general public and specialist audiences. The general section of the website includes videos giving an introduction to composite materials. The specialist area of the website details key findings, publications and applications, as well as an interactive material parameters graph, showcasing how HiPerDuCT-developed materials compare to existing composite and metallic materials. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016,2017,2018 |
URL | http://hiperduct.ac.uk |