Marine Forum

Marine Forum

Increasing performances & requirements of composite structure & materials
High-performance composites designed for deep sea & racing applications • Tough conditions for new materials • The need of a mastered approach


 Tuesday March 27 – 10:30am / 1:00pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

High-performance composites designed for deep sea & racing applications


1 - Composite cylinders for deep sea applications


Ifremer
Dominique Choqueuse (France)
R&D Engineer

 

Peter Davies (France)
R&D Engineer

 


· Filament winding
· Tests under hydrostatic pressure
· Numerical modeling
· Off-shore

 


2 - Structural design of high performance composite spars for racing yachts


HDS Design
Hervé Devaux (France)
Head of HDS Design

· The history of composite masts for racing yachts
· The main strength criteria
· Particularity of buckling for sandwich and monolithic composite structures
· Finite elements modeling of a wingsail for the America’s Cup



Tough conditions for new materials


3 - LEO - Lightweight with Extreme Opportunities


Saertex GmbH & Co. KG
Jörg Bünker (Germany)
R&D Head of Department

· New opportunities for marine composite applications
· Fire requirements according to IMO / Solas rules
· Fire retardant composite with high structural efficiency

 

 

4 - The Albatros: A thermoplastic composite dinghy


Finot Group
Jean-Marie Finot (France)
Naval Architect & CEO


Sora Composites Group
Yannick Amossé (France)
Director of Research and Innovation


· Design inspired from round-the-world racing yachts
· Manufacturing process with specific knowhow from automotive industry



The need of a mastered approach


5 - Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of a high speed craft


KTH – Royal Institute of Technology
Magnus Burman (Sweden)
Senior Researcher


· Comparative LCA suitable for studies of the hull of high speed marine vessels
· Five different but equally optimized material concepts
· Impact environment: Aluminium concept vs Composites alternatives
· Reducing fuel consumption means helping the environment

 


6 - Towards safe and robust marine craft


University of Oslo, previously Det Norske Veritas
Brian Hayman (Norway)
Adjunct Professor, formerly Senior Principal Engineer

· Incidence of defects and damage in composite craft
· Consequences of damage for safety and performance
· Damage assessment for high-performance naval vessels
· Challenges and solutions for application to yachts and other craft subjected to extreme conditions