Webinars

24 Feb 2012

Marco Plewe [Key Technology Manager Plastics, KUKA Roboter GmbH]

Summary (duration: 21 min.)

  • Challenges in general
  • Process chain example
  • Automation, based on 6-axis robotics
24 Feb 2012

Jake Little [Evisive Inc Management Oceania Composites Engineering Pty Ltd]

Summary (duration: 17 min.)

  • Microwave NDE techniques to stacked defects in laminate structures
  • Examples showing images of geometrically challenging specimens
  • Comparison of the inspection results obtained using the new technology and an existing NDE method on the same calibration standard
24 Feb 2012

Paul Hibbard [R&D Engineer - Principal Engineer - Rotor Systems Singapore, Vestas Technology R&D]

Summary (duration: 20 min.)

  • Reducing cost of energy
  • Composite materials for wind turbine blades
  • Research challenges for turbine blades
24 Feb 2012

Kevin Sze-Chiang Kuang [Teacher & Academic - Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore]

Summary (duration: 21 min.)

  • 3 types of optical fiber sensors showcased
  • Operating principles, capabilities, limitations and advantages
  • Potential use of these sensors for a range of engineering structure
24 Feb 2012

Jorge Aldezábal [Head of International Technology, Gamesa Innovation & Technology]

Summary (duration: 22 min.)

  • Gamesa’s introduction in the Chinese market
  • Expansion to India
  • R&D Centre in Singapore
24 Feb 2012

Jerome Lombardi [Regional Geocycle Director, Holcim]

Summary (duration: 25 min.)

  • Co-processing is THE alternative to save our environment and improve industrial ecological footprint
  • Holcim only co-processes waste that cannot be recycled or reused in an ecologically sound way
  • From wastes to alternative resources
21 Feb 2012

Alan Harper [CEO, Alan Harper Composites]

Summary (duration: 19 min.)

  • An economic answer
  • Innovative solutions
  • Reusable bag manufacturing technology
21 Feb 2012

John Carson [Director of Marketing, Chomarat]

Summary (duration: 35 min.)

Homogenized thin ply laminates are less prone to delamination. With this high quality product and new design and processing benefits simultaneous weight and cost reductions can now be achieved.

21 Feb 2012

Dr. Muhammad Ridha [Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, National University of Singapore]

Summary (duration: 29 min.)

One of the key component for designing composite structure, its damage tolerance and repairs is the ability to predict its behaviour beyond the first ply failure by using progressive damage and failure analysis.

21 Feb 2012

Jun Takahashi [Professor, The University of Tokyo]

Summary (duration: 22 min.)

  • Japanese national project started in 2008
  • Solving cost, molding and recycling issues
  • The use of hermoplastic CFRP
  • Repairing and recycling of CFRTP for automotive application
  • Life cycle analysis of recycled CFRP