FPCM International Scientific Committee

 Suresh Advani, University of Delaware, USA  Remko Akkerman (FPCM12 Chairman), University of Twente, The Netherlands  Simon Bickerton, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
 Christophe Binétruy, École Centrale de Nantes, France  Conchúr Ó Brádaigh, University College Cork, Ireland  Joël Bréard, Université du Havre, France
 Paolo Ermanni, ETH Zurich, Switzerland  Juan Garcia, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain  Hiroyuki Hamada, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan
 Pascal Hubert, McGill University, Canada  Stepan Lomov, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium  Andrew Long, The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
 Al Loos, Michigan State University, USA  Staffan Lundström, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden  Veronique Michaud, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
 Peter Mitschang, Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany  Krishna Pillai, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA  Byron Pipes, Purdue University, USA
 John Summerscales, University of Plymouth, UK  François Trochu, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada  Gerhard Ziegman, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany

FPCM12 programme

Day 1: Monday 14 July 2014 Day 2: Tuesday 15 July 2014 Day 3: Wednesday 16 July 2014 Posters
Keynote I: Challenges in multifunctional composites manufacture and operation
Leif Asp (Swerea SICOMP, Sweden)
Keynote II: Vacuum Assisted Process® – technology for large Aerostructure Components
Mathias Friedrich (Premium Aerotec, Germany)
Keynote III: Flow analysis software for RTM: design and applications
Arjen Koorevaar (Polyworx, The Netherlands)
On the effect of mould deflection on flow characterization in RTM (abstract)
Nuno Correia (Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica e Gestão Industrial, Portugal)
Session I: Thermoplastic Composites I
Chair: Remko Akkerman
Session V: Thermoplastic Composites II
Chair: Pascal Hubert
Session X: Natural Fibre Composites
Chair: Richard Loendersloot
Permeability determination of resistive welded carbon fabrics (abstract)
Jörg Dittmann (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Moulding defects in continuous fibre and randomly-oriented strands carbon/PEEK composites (Comp A)
Benoit Landry (Mc Gill University, Canada)
A lubrication approach to friction in forming processes with thermoplastic UD composites
Uli Sachs (University of Twente - TPRC, The Netherlands)
Experimental analysis of flow behavior in the flax fiber reinforcement with double scale porosity
Van Hau Nguyen (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Douai, France)
Reinforcement of partially cured aerospace structures with B-staged patches (abstract)
Clemens Dransfeld (Institute of Polymer Engineering Windisch, Switzerland)
Development of composite parts with RTM process based on new high fluidity thermoplastic polymers
Gilles Orange (Solvay, France)
Pultrusion process for continuous fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites
Asami Nakai (Gifu University, Japan)
Capillary effects on flax fibres reinforcements: comparison of chemical and morphological effects on the local wetting dynamics (Comp A)
Monica Pucci (Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France)
Simulation of the compression resin transfer moulding for fast curing resins (abstract)
Clemens Dransfeld (Institute of Polymer Engineering Windisch, Switzerland)
Experimental investigation of the flow behavior of woven composite flakes in thermoplastic resin melt
Mohammed Iqbal Abdul Rashid (University of Twente - TPRC, the Netherlands)
Modeling of unsaturated flow in woven fibers during direct injection-pultrusion process of thermoplastic composites (Comp A)
Arthur Babeau (Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France)
Shear viscosity data of natural fibre compounds for the modeling of polymer processes through reverse engineering
Frederik Desplentere (KU Leuven, Belgium)
A study on the filtration of nano and micro particles in liquid composite molding processes (abstract)
Gaston Francucci (National University of Mar del Plata, Argentina)
Session II: Numerical Methods I
Chair: Suresh Advani
Poster Session Mold filling simulation in RTM processing of natural fiber composite materials
Gaston Francucci (National University of Mar del Plata, Argentina)
Characterization of capillary pressure effects in liquid composite molding
Andrew George (Brigham Young University, United States of America)
Multi-scale modelling of combined deterministic and stochastic fabric non-uniformity for realistic resin injection simulation
Andreas Endruweit (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom)
Session VI: Numerical Methods II
Chair: Alfred Loos
Session XI: Material Modelling
Chair: Veronique Michaud
Permeability of sheared woven flax fibres reinforcements; permeability measurements of the orthotropic behaviour
Pierre-Jacques Liotier (Ecoles des Mines de Saint-Etienne CNRS, France)
Capturing the variability of textile permeability from scanned images: A tool to automatically compute a textile permeability map
Elinor Swery (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Numerical prediction of in-plane permeability for woven fabric with manufacture induced deformation (Comp A)
Xuesen Zeng (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom)
Design of a quasi-unidirectional fabric for RTM process with high fluidity thermoplastic: longitudinal permeability and microstructure
Guillaume Cazaux (University of Le Havre, UMR CNRS, France)
Simulation of multilayer preform impregnation during VARTM process (abstract)
Raounak Loudad (University of Havre CNRS, France)
A stochastic approach to modeling the effect of material variation in out-of-autoclave prepreg consolidation (Comp A)
Rhena Helmus (University of München, Germany)
An adaptive monolithic Finite Element approach for the numerical simulation of compression Resin Transfer Molding processes
Jerome Claracq (DOW Benelux BV, The Netherlands)
A micromechanical model to simulate capillary flows in dual scale porous media
Claudia Thurnher (Ecole Polytechnique Montreal, Canada)
Influence of chemical-stitching binder technology on preform permeability
Dino Magagnato (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Direct generation of finite element meshes of composites micro and mesostructure from 3D imaging: application to flow computation
Luisa Silva (Mines ParisTech, France)
Eulerian approach for computational fluid-solid mechanics with capillarity issues for resin infusion based process
Pierre-Jacuqes Liotier (Hexcel Reinforcements, France)
High temperature VARTM using LaRC-PETI-9 polyimide resin
Alfred Loos (Michigan State University, United States of America)
Development of an innovative preforming process (abstract)
Maximilian Marquart (BMW Group, Germany)
Session III: Void Dynamics
Chair: Leif Asp
Direct numerical orientation of fiber in shear flow for complex fluids
Patrice Laure (Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonné, France)
Modeling and validation of through thickness flows in fully wetted textiles during consolidation
Mario Danzi (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
A multifunctional PvT device for the characterization of thermophysical properties of thermoplastics in extreme thermal conditions (abstract)
B. Pignon (Université de Nantes CNRS, France)
In situ flow visualization of void migration during out-of-autoclave thermoset prepreg processing
Thomas Cender (University of Delaware, United States)
Session VII: Particle Dynamics
Chair: John Summerscales
Analysis of multi-scale effects on the permeability of fabrics for liquid composite molding
Luca Bergamasco (Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón, Spain)
Advanced computational strategies for fast and reliable gate arrangement pre-design of resin infusion processes (abstract) (Comp A)
F Sanchez (Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Spain)
Volatile-induced voids in RTM processing for aerospace
Mark Anders (University of Southern California, United States)
Processing and characterization of multi-scale composites manufactured by out-of-autoclave Resin Film Infusion
Pascal Hubert (McGill University Montreal, Canada)
Session XII: Numerical Methods III
Chair: François Trochu
In-mould surfacing with a silicone membrane (abstract)
John Summerscales (Plymouth University, England)
Coupling the formation, movement, dispersion and effects of voids in resin infusion
Mark Brandley (Brigham Young University, United States)
Packing and permeability properties of E-glass fibre reinforcements functionalised with capsules for selfhealing applications
Erica Manfredi (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland)
Air evacuation in consolidation modeling of Out of Autoclave prepregs
Theodosia Kourkoutsaki (University of München, Germany)
Processing and mechanical characterization of glass fiber reinforcements using GO nano particles
Rehan Umer (Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi UAE)
Modeling hysteresis in liquid composite mold filling processes with void formation
Antonio García (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Combining process simulation and sensing for optimised composites manufacturing
Nikos Pantelelis (Synthesites Innovative Technologies, Greece)
Process modeling of composite materials – a holistic and generic simulation tool using poromechanics
Mohammad Rouhi (Swerea SICOMP, Sweden)
Skin-core debonding in resin-infused sandwich structures
Rehan Umer (Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi UAE)
Poster Session Session VIII: Process monitoring and control
Chair: Peter Mitschang
An efficient scheme to model resin flow in a deformable porous media using RTM infusion simulation
Suresh Advani (University of Delaware, United States)
Towards efficient textile characterisation: Industry-focussed permeability and compaction evaluation
Andrew Walbran (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Session IV: Characterisation Methods
Chair: Christophe Binetruy
Coupling between heat transfer and saturation: experimental investigation
Vincent Sobotka (Université de Nantes, France)
Impregnation of composites at the unit cell level
Edwin Lamers (Reden BV, The Netherlands)
 
Efficient method to characterize textile permeability as a function of fiber volume content with a single UD injection experiment (Comp A)
Claudio di Fratta (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Liquid Composite Moulding flow front characterization by Micro-CT
Matthew Streeter (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)
Conference closure at
Thermo-Plastic composite Research Centre (TPRC)
 
Influence of preforming technology on het out-of-plane impregnation behavior of textiles (Comp A)
David Becker (Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH, Germany)
Monitoring non-isothermal polymerization and crystallization of cyclic butylene terephthalate composites manufactured by RTM
Inigo Ortiz de Mendibil (Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Spain)
   
Rigid tooling for optical 3D wetting permeability measurements
Andrew George (Brigham Young University, United States)
Increasing the robustness and reliability of cfrp production processes through systematic analysis and process monitoring
Christopher Buchmann (EADS Innovation Works, Germany)
   
Permeability Benchmark discussion
François Trochu (Ecole Polytechnique Montreal, Canada)
Session IX: Innovative Processes
Chair: Paolo Ermanni
   
Reception at City Hall Enschede Development of an innovative preforming process for the high-volume automotive sector
Maximilian Marquart (BMW AG, Germany)
   
International Scientific Committee meeting Tool vibrations for the advancement of the vacuum Infusion process
Nikos Pantalelis (Synthesites Innovative Technologies, Greece)
   
  In-mould gel-coating with a separator layer
John Summerscales (Plymouth University, United Kingdom)
   
  Effect of surface treatment for continuous fibers on impregnation and mechanical properties of thermoplastic composites
Akio Ohtani (Gifu University, Japan)
  L Gascón, JA García, F LeBel, E Ruiz and F. Trochu, Numerical prediction of saturation in dual scale fibrous reinforcements during Liquid Composite Molding, Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, October 2015, 77, 275-284.
  Conference Dinner at Bloemenbeek    

Created by John Summerscales on 18 July 2014 and updated on 03-Jun-2016 15:22.