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6th Annual Conference of the
CDT in Advanced Composites for Innovation and Science
(ACCIS CDT)
www.bris.ac.uk/composites
Introduction and Update on ACCIS CDT Activities
Professor Paul Weaver (CDT Director)
• Established in 2009 with £7.1 million award from the EPSRC
• Funding secured to continue training outstanding graduates until 2022
• Embedded within the Bristol Composites Institute (ACCIS)
• Funded by EPSRC, University and industrial partners
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Composites for Innovation and Science
Vision: To develop the next generation of technical leaders in advanced composites by stimulating adventurous interdisciplinary research, which bridges the length scales, connects to and interfaces between the disciplines of engineering, chemistry, physics and life sciences,
and bestows enhanced and added functionality to composite materials.
• Significant industrial support
• National and international academic collaborations
• Memorandum of Understanding with the National Institute of Aerospace
• Wide choice of cutting-edge PhD projects – blue skies and applied
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Composites for Innovation and Science
www.bristol.ac.uk/composites/cdt/
• 4-Year PhD in Advanced Composites
• Cohort-driven training approach
• Transferable skills training
• Public engagement
• At least 10 funded places per year
(UK/EU and International)
• Integrated taught component
– Small group teaching
– Flagship group design, build and test (DBT) project
– Individual 6-month exploratory research project
CDT Staff and Management Committee
CDT ChairProf. Michael Wisnom
CDT DirectorProf. Paul Weaver
Head of the Queen‘s School of EngineeringProf. Ian Bond
Teaching Co-ordinatorDr Ian Farrow
CDT LecturerDr Dmitry Ivanov
CDT LecturerDr Alberto Pirrera
Deputy Director and Research Co-ordinatorDr Ian Hamerton
ACCIS Project ManagerMrs Katie Drury
CDTManagerMs Sarah Hallworth
PG Administrator Miss Irantzu Pérez
DTC13 RepsJ HartleyM Othman
CDT14RepsC AzaC White
CDT15 RepsV MaesT Rev
CDT16 Reps C BranfootK Kanari
News
• ACCIS chosen as one of seven new Specialist Research Institutes. Now the ‘Bristol Composites Institute (ACCIS)’
• Successful EPSRC Evaluation Framework ‘mid-term review’
• First industrially supported prizes awarded and new prizes confirmed
• Student-run industrial lecture series well underway – Hexcel, GKN, Technical Fibre Products . . .
Tamas Rev receiving the 2016 Hexcel prize for the best Extended Research Project (XP)
Vincent Maes receiving the 2016 Dassi Bikes prize for the best taught mark
Our Students
• 99 students since 2009
• 18% female
• 8th cohort of 16 students started Sept 2016
• Engineers and scientists with exceptional academic records from the UK, Europe and wider world
• Students benefit greatly from the diversity of their collective cultural and education backgrounds
“I am a better engineer, professional, and researcher from things I learned from my
cohort during my first year”
“Everyone has come from a different background and therefore has an
individual speciality which they can share with the others in the cohort”
Building Strong Cohorts
2013/142014/15
• 2nd inter-cohort design challenge – ‘Eggscape from New Yolk’
• Cider making – a ‘taste’ of Bristolian culture
• World café knowledge exchange event
Our Graduates
Recent Destinations
• Blue Origin
• Decision Analysis Services
• Inductosense
• Thales Alenia Space UK
• NCC
• Swansea University
• University of Bath
• University of Bristol
• Withers & Rogers LLP
• Yoox Net-a-Porter group
• 33 PhDs submitted; 29 completed
• 5 Faculty thesis commendations
• 100% recruitment
• Growing trend for targeting start-ups and SMEs for first employment
• Alumni starting to ‘give back’, supervising projects
“The training gained in the CDT has helped me considerably in gaining my first job, as the skills required matched
exactly those needed for the job”
Industry
Academia
Current destination by sector
Research Projects
Six-month Extended Research Projects (XPs)
• Undertaken in the first year (June to December)
• Co-supervised by ACCIS and collaborator(s)
• Can develop into a PhD project
• Fully-funded by the ACCIS CDT
PhD Projects
• Undertaken in years 2-4
• 30 of 82 PhD projects undertaken with an academic partner, and 30 an industrial partner
• Individual budget for conference travel, equipment etc
• International placement scheme
• Next project call: Sept/Oct 2017
Public Engagement
• RAeS Cool Aeronautics events
• Smart plastics workshop for the 8th Skirting Science day
• Composites workshops for the Crypt School and Stow-on-the Wold Primary School
• I’m an engineer, get me out of here! event finalist
• Segment on materials testing in relation to bird strikes for The One Show – aired 22nd March ‘17
• STEM for Britain event at the House of Commons
• UoB 3MT finalists every yearEvangels Zympeloudis discussing his work with Bristol Labour MP Thangam Debbonaire
Steven Rae and Simon Bates showing the One Show’s Marty Jopson how materials are
tested using an impact tower
Achievements
• Publications
− 93 journal papers
− 36 different journals, including the leading composite journals: Composite Structures, Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, and Smart Materials and Structures
• Conference participation
− 197 conference presentations delivered at major national and international conferences in 19 different countries
− Recent conferences:
➢ 2017 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit, April 2017
➢ 8th International Conference on Composites Testing and Model Identification (CompTest 2017), April 2017
➢ 24th Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Material Systems + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring (SPIE 2017), March 2017
➢ 58th AIAA/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference (AIAA SciTech 2017), January 2017
Achievements
Nima Composites Start-up Company Jamie Hartley and Evangelos Zympeloudis, 2013 cohort
New Shape Changing Metamaterial using KirigamiRobin Neville, 2011 cohort
• Carbon fibre covers for high value electronics
• Uses aircraft grade woven carbon fibre to craft a thin, lightweight, strong and aesthetically pleasing shell
• Manufacturing based in Greece
• Published in Scientific Reports
• A new investigation of the Poisson’s ratios of a family of cellular metamaterials based on Kirigami design principles
• Kirigami is the Japanese art of cutting and folding paper to obtain 3D shapes