The 4th Composites@Manchester Research Workshop will take place on Tuesday 25th and Wednesday 26th June 2019.

This event will bring together researchers working with composite materials to share their work and represents an excellent opportunity to network with likeminded individuals from academia and industry.

We look forward to welcoming you to this year's workshop!

Programme

Tuesday 25th June
9:00 Registration (F6, Sackville Street Building)
9:20 Opening remarks (F47, Sackville Street Building)
9:30 Keynote 1: Industry 4.0 and composites - opportunities and challenges (Dr Yan Liu, Cygnet Texkimp)
10:10 Session 1: Manufacture of composite materials
11:10 Coffee break (F6)
11:30 Continuation of Session 1 (F47)
12:00 Session 2: Quick-fire presentations by poster presenters
12:30 Poster session and networking lunch (F6)
13:30 Keynote 2: Liquid crystal-polymer composites: ordered gels (Dr Ingo Dierking, University of Manchester)
14:10 Session 3: Micro- and nano- composites
14:55 Coffee break (F6)
15:15 Continuation of Session 3 (F47)
16:15 Session 4: Sensing and structural monitoring
17:00 Close of day 1
19:00 Dinner at Rain Bar Manchester (advance registration required)

Wednesday 26th June
9:00 Registration (F6, Sackville Street Building)
9:30 Keynote 3: Damage modelling of composite and application of multifunctional composites (Dr Yu Shi, University of Chester)
10:00 Session 5: Mechanical performance of composites
11:15 Coffee break (F6)
11:35 Session 6: Bio-inspired composites
12:20 Poster session and networking lunch (F6)
13:20 Session 7: Modelling and simulation
14:20 Closing remarks

Cost of attending
Funding can represent a barrier to conference attendance for many doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers, so we are committed to ensuring this event is free-of-charge to participants, and are very grateful for the financial support of the University of Manchester’s Aerospace Research Institute to facilitate this.

Further information
We have run three successful workshops in 2016, 2017, and 2018, and hope to build on this foundation by engaging as many of our researchers as possible, to continue to encourage the growth of this unique event.

To read more about last year's workshop, please follow this link: https://bit.ly/2Utghm5

Please feel free to contact us by email for any enquiries: composites@manchester.ac.uk