Program
The program for the conference will be made available in August. The tentative program for the school can alreayd be found below:
Session 1: Failure of composite materials
- Hybrid effects in fibre-hybrid composites (Yentl Swolfs - KU Leuven)
- Pseudo-ductility in composites: successful approaches and recent developments (Salvatore Giacomo Marino - Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
- Linking strength of single fibres to carbon fibre composites: An experimental, probabilistic and micromechanical approach (Rajnish Kumar - Technical University of Denmark)
Session 2: Manufacturing and recycling
- Carbon fibre composite recycling: an industrial perspective - Mathilde Poulet (ELG Carbon Fibre)
- Industrial manufacturing of (hybrid) prepregs (Alexios Argyropoulos - North Thin Ply Technology & EPFL)
- Liquid composite moulding of composites…a zoom on the flow front (Véronique Michaud - EPFL)
Session 3: Modelling and microstructures
- Creating digital twins of composites (Lars P. Mikkelsen - Technical University of Denmark)
- Composites microstructure correlation (Camilo Rojas - KU Leuven)
- Fibre-matrix interface: methods & models (Sina AhmadvashAghbash - KU Leuven)
Session 4: Non-conventional composites
- Steel fibre-reinforced composites (Tahreem Naveed - BMW & KU Leuven)
- Shape memory composites using conventional composite contituents (Gokul Murali - Imperial College London)
- Structural composite energy storage: opportunities and challenges (Olivier Hubert - University of Vienna)
Session 5: Advanced experimental characterisation
- Experimental multi-instrument damage mechanics for fibre reinforced composites (Stepan V. Lomov - KU Leuven)
- Fatigue of UD composites: Damage progression (Babak Fazlali - KU Leuven)
- Fracture toughness in composites: characterization and modelling (Guillaume Broggi - EPFL)
- Multi-scale digital image/volume correlation in fiber-reinforced composites (Mahoor Mehdikhani - KU Leuven)