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  1. Composites Forming Simulations - on Physics & Data, Accuracy & Applicability

    23 May 2023

    Composites Forming processes, in particular stamp forming, offer the potential of high volume manufacturing of light weight structural parts. Such parts need to be designed with the process and its requirements in mind, in order to prevent process induced defects such as wrinkling or poor...

  2. M3 – A Sustainable Approach to Vehicle Light-weighting with Composites: Methods – Materials – Manufacturing

    07 Apr 2023

    The presentation will introduce our house of competence, KIT and Fraunhofer ICT and introduce our MMM approach to engineered lightweight solutions for specific industries. This comprises of the development of virtual process chains, material and manufacturing solutions for relevant technologies...

  3. Imparting Robustness to Out-of-Autoclave Prepregs

    09 Mar 2023 | Contributor(s):: STEVEN NUTT

    Autoclaves have long been used to ensure robustness in the production of composite parts. However, they present a production bottleneck, as well as high capital and recurring costs. Out-of-autoclave prepregs were introduced to allow oven curing and thereby address some of these issues. These OoA...

  4. New Developments in Platelet Composite Rheology

    15 Feb 2023 | Contributor(s):: Tony Favaloro, Drew Sommer

  5. New Developments in Platelet Composite Performance

    15 Feb 2023 | Contributor(s):: Sergey Kravchenko

  6. New Developments in Platelet Meso-scale Measurements

    15 Feb 2023 | Contributor(s):: Benjamin Denos

  7. Experiments in Platelet Composites

    14 Feb 2023 | Contributor(s):: Pascal Hubert

  8. State of the Art of Rheology of Concentrated Suspensions

    14 Feb 2023

  9. Platelet Workshop Opening Statements

    14 Feb 2023 | Contributor(s):: Byron Pipes

  10. Fiber Orientation Prediction for Discontinuous Fiber Composites: Fundamentals and Future Trends

    08 Feb 2023 | Contributor(s):: Charles Tucker

    When composite materials with discontinuous fibers are processed into their final shape, any flow alters the fiber orientation pattern and affects the properties of the final composite. It is now standard practice to predict fiber orientation patterns and the resulting mechanical properties in...

  11. Master Laminates to Simplify Design, Manufacturing, and Testing of Composites

    12 Dec 2022 | Contributor(s):: Stephen W Tsai

    Composite materials and structures have traditionally been viewed as more complicated than metals. With master stiffness and failure envelopes composites are as simple as metals. Stiffness of laminates can be split into two part: one for trace that represents the total stiffness capacity; one for...

  12. Adaptive Multi-Scale & Multi-Fidelity Progressive Failure Analysis of Composites

    14 Nov 2022 | Contributor(s):: Tong-Earn (TE) Tay

    Although high-fidelity modeling of progressive damage has advanced our understanding of failure mechanisms in fibre-reinforced composites, such techniques are currently still too computationally intensive for direct application to composite structures. The multi-scale nature of damage in...