To mark the closure of the EPSRC funded SIMPROCS Platform grant at the Bristol Composites Institute, a dissemination event was held at the NCC on 20 April.
This was well attended by over 50 delegates who came to hear about the state-of-the-art composites manufacturing simulations that had been developed throughout the project.
A series of talks highlighted successful outcomes, such as over 20 published papers, international collaborations, new software developed and industrial deployment of new process modelling tools.
The event ended with a networking lunch and a display of posters about the research.
Prof. Stephen Hallett, the grant’s principal investigator, said “I am very proud of what we have achieved in this programme. It has been a game changer in our ability to simulate composites manufacturing processes. The world-class team of researchers have been amazing to work with and have delivered fantastic new capability.”
The slides from the day’s talks can be downloaded at the following links:
Introduction, grant overview, major successes – Stephen Hallett
Pre-preg and AFP process modelling – Jonathan Belnoue
Process Modelling of Textile Composites – Adam Thompson
Industrial use case – from CAD to defect free part – Yi Wang
Early stage new technology – Machine Learning – Anatoly Koptelov
And the posters can be downloaded here: