Bristol Composites Institute Newsletter
February 2022
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Composites for Future Resilience – Bristol Composites Institute annual conference
Sustainability was one of the key themes at this year’s conference successfully held online on 9 November 2021. The 14th annual Bristol Composites Institute conference included expert panel discussions and attracted over 200 attendees from around the world.
Read more about the event and watch the recordings. |
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Industrial Doctorate Centre Showcase event
The Industrial Doctorate Centre (IDC) in Composites Manufacture held its Showcase event in October 2021. The IDC has been running since 2013 and recently recruited its final student. The event marked this milestone and the launch of a brochure to summarise the IDC activities.
Read more about the showcase and view the brochure. |
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| In the blog articles below you can find out more about some of our research projects. |
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Novel blade technologies improve helicopter efficiency
Developing new flying technologies that are more efficient and drastically reduce fuel burn is key to becoming more sustainable. The SABRE project developed different morphing concepts that will enable us to quickly and accurately control the shape of each blade and hence the airflow, during each rotation.
Read more about the SABRE Project in our blog. |
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CerTest – Certification for Design: Reshaping the Testing Pyramid
The CerTest research project aims to develop integrated high-fidelity structural testing and multi-scale statistical modelling through Design of Experiments (DoE) and Bayesian Learning. This will holistically address the challenges that are preventing step-changes in future engineering design of composite structures by reshaping the traditional ‘Testing Pyramid’.
Read more about the CerTest project in our blog. |
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Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Fellowship
Professor Steve Eichhorn’s EPSRC fellowship, Realising Functional Cellulosic Bio-based Composites, includes an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I) aspect. The technical work focuses on biobased and sustainable composites, and the ED&I aspect of the work will aim to improve the experiences and inclusion of Black students and staff.
Read more about this Fellowship in our blog. |
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ACM5
The postponed ACM5-2021 will take place in Bristol, UK, from 6 to 7 April 2022.
The full programme will be available shortly and can be accessed here. https://www.acm5.org/programme |
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Bristol Composites Institute Doctoral Research Symposium
12th April 2022. Engineers House, Bristol
The Centre for Doctoral Training is returning to in-person for it’s annual open event to share doctoral research.
To attend, please register at Eventbrite. |
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Composites Hackathon
Three companies were invited to set a composite challenge that required some blue-sky thinking for our Advanced Composites PhD students.
Dr Mike Sloan, Managing Director of Technical Composites Systems said: “The Hackathon at Bristol was both enjoyable and Beneficial to Technical Composite Systems. From an industry perspective, the day was an excellent opportunity to engage with the innovation and creativity at Bristol.”
Read more about the Hackathon event and find out how to get involved.
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| Industrial Composite Repair Working Party
In response to feedback in the last Industry Advisory Board for the BCI, we have now facilitated two repair working party meetings. The working parties contain nine different companies representing aerospace, automotive, defence and marine sectors.
Key areas of interest have been identified and these will be addressed at a ‘Reducing the Burden of Repair’ day hosted at the National Composites Centre on 24th May. For more information and to attend the event, please look at Eventbrite.
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Vacancies and opportunities
PhD studentships
Fully funded studentships are still available for home students in our Centre for Doctoral Training in Composites Science, Engineering and Manufacturing. See here for more details.
If you would like to offer an industrial studentship for September 2022 please contact Keri Montague
Contact us
To get in touch or subscribe to this newsletter
Bristol Composites Institute Manager Clare Thresher
Email: composites-institute@bristol.ac.uk
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