09:15  Introduction and welcome
Professor K Walters FRS
Institute of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Session 1: Autoclave processing and heat transfer
Chair:  CM Ó Brádaigh

09:25  Predictions of the temperature proflie within composite sheets during pre-heating.
JE Cunningham and PF Monaghan

09:50  Autoclave cure of composites: validation of models using dynamic dielectric analysis.
GM Maistros and IK Partridge

10:15  Effect of cooling rate on the solidification of a cylindrical channel section.
GJ Ruddock and AJM Spencer

10:40 Coffee

Session 2: Rheology of polymeric composites I
Chair:  K Walters

11:10  Determination of longitudinal and transverse behaviour of continuous fibre-reinforced composites from vee-bending.
RJ Dykes, TA Martin and D Bhattacharyya

11:35  Constitutive equations for anisotropic materials.
JA Goshawk and RS Jones

12.00  Characterisation of the processing behaviour of unidirectional continuous fibre reinforced thermoplastic sheets.
GB McGuinness and CM Ó Brádaigh

12:25  Effect of in-plane and shear viscosity on the flow and fibre orientation of long fibre injection moulded composites.
L Dewez, P Pirotte, G Lielens, A Couniot and F Dupret

12:50 Lunch

SessIon 3: Numerical modelling I
Chair:  J Krebs

14:00  Prediction of thermo-mechanical properties for compression-moulded composites.
G Lielens, P Pirotte, A Couniot, F Dupret and R Keunings

14:25  Large deformation finite element modelling of single-curvature composite sheet forming with tool contact.
SP McEntee and CM Ó Brádaigh

14:50  Mathematical modelling of the draping of fibre cloths in composite processes and numerical prediction of local porosity and fibre orientation.
C Lekakou, U Mohammed and MG Bader

15:15  Numerical and experimental investigation of some press forming parameters of two fibre-reinforced thermoplastics: APC2-AS4 and PEI-CETEX.
P de Luca, P Lefébure and AK Pickett

15:40 Tea

Session 4: Intelligent processing techniques I
Chair:  D. Bhattacharyya

16:10  Flow processes in short fibre composites: a fibre-fibre interaction study.
SE Barbosa and JM Kenny

16:35  The effects of embroidery parameters ion processing and mechanical properties of Cornely embroidered quasi-unidirectional reinforcement.
DJ Morris, CD Rudd, SP Gardner and NA Warrior

17:00  Predictions of optimum conditions for the pultrusion process of composite materials by a numerical approach.
A Yokoyoma and H Hamada

Session 5: Numerical modelling II
Chair:  R Keunings

09:00  Numerical simulations for impregnation of fibre preforms in composites manufacturing.
XE Gallez and SG Advani

09:25  Non-isothermal simulation of the structural reaction injection moulding process.
O Mal, A Couniot and F Dupret

09:50  Modelling matrix injection through elastic porous preforms.
D Ambrosi and L Preziosi

10:15  The numerical simulation of flow moulding processes of short-fîbre composites.
A Agic

10:40 Coffee

Session 6: Rheology of polymeric composites II
Chair: A Long

11:10  Deformation behaviour of MMC under combined loading.
DWA Rees and M Liddiard

11:35  Modelling the viscoelastic response of anisotropic materials.
JA Goshawk and RS Jones

12:00  Application of Navarro rheological model to polyesther-attapulgìte and polyesther-alumina composites in a liquid state.
RF Navarro

12:25  About the relationships structure-deformation of damaged initially "isotropic" composites.
J Rharbal and J Raclin

Session 6b: Resin transfer moulding I
Chair:  J-A Månson

11:10  Microwave asslsted resin transfer moulding.
MS Johnson, CD Rudd and DJ Hill

11:35  Measurement of three-dimensional permeability.
JR Weitzenböck, RA Shenoi and PA Wilson

12.00  Mathematical modelling of resin infiltration in resin transfer moulding (RTM).
C Lekakou and MG Bader

12:25  Resin transfer moulding of a polyimide (AMB-21)/carbon fibre composite.
RL Sadler, VS Avva and ST Thomas

12:50 Lunch

Session 7a: Curing and flow processes in polymeric composites
Chair:  PJ Mallon

14:00  Viscosity: thermal history models for thermosetting resins.
QPV Fontana

14:25  Cure monitoring of the liquid composite moulding process using fibre optic sensors.
DL Woerdeman, RA Neff JK Spoerre, KM Flynn and RS Parnas

14:50  Modelling the damage evolution during the machining of a particle reinforced metal matrix composite.
D Brazil and J Monaghan

15:15  Numerical simulation of heat and resin flow and curing of polymer composites.
S McKee and AK Zulkifbe

Session 7b: Resin transfer moulding II
Chair: AG Gibson

14:00  A study of the effects of convergent flow fronts on the properties of fibre-reinforced composites produced by RTM.
NRL Pearce, FJ Guild and J Summerscales

14:25  Structural resin transfer moulding with compression process.
H Hamada and N Ikegawa

14:50  Void transport in resin transfer moulding.
TS Lundström

15:15 Networking
15:40 Tea

Session 8: Intelligent processing techniques II
Chair:  FN Cogswell

16:10  Understanding the development of fibre orientation during the melt extrusion of short glass fibre reinforced polypropylene.
PJ Hine, S-W Tsui, PD Coates, IM Ward and RA Duckett

16:35  An investigation into the effects of fabric architecture on the processing and properties of fibre-reinforced composites produced by RTM.
NRL Pearce, FJ Guild and J Summerscales

17:00  A new fibre placement system for an automated production of thermoplastic composite structures.
M Weck and R vor dem Esche

19:30 for 20:00 Conference Dinner

Session 9: Sheet and press forming of advanced composites
chair: J Summerscales

09:00  The effect of pressure gradients on the consolidation behaviour of fibre-reinforced thermoplastic.
R Phillips, P Sunderland, P Berguerand and J-A Månson

09:25  Flow and compaction during the isothermal consolidation of a co-mingled thermoplastic composite.
T Cain, MD Wakeman, R Brooks, A Long and CD Rudd

09:50  Characterisation of flow behaviour of glass mat thermoplastics (GMTs) by squeeze flow testing.
G Kotsikos, J Bland and AG Gibson

10:15  The optimisation of the non-isothermal press-forming process for fibre reinforced thermoplastics.
R Williams and PJ Mallon

10:40 Coffee

Session 10: Flow processes in polymeric composites
Chair:  AJM Spencer

11:10  Some experiments on flow and orientation in fibre suspensions.
JFT Pittman and H Mahmoudzadeh

11:35  Inter-ply and intra-ply shear processes in continuous fibre-reinforced thermoplastics.
J Krebs, K Friedrich, R Christie and D Bhattacharyya

12:00 Envoy.
FN Cogswell

12:50 Lunch