TOPICS

Applications and Sectors

• Aerospace
• Automotive, Rail, and Ground Transportation
• Civil Engineering and Architecture
• Defense
• Maritime and Marine
• Medical
• Oil and Gas
• Renewable Energy (e.g. Wind, Solar)
• Space
• Sports and Leisure
• Other Application Domains

Materials

• Bio-Derived and Sustainable Composites
• Fibers and Textiles
• Matrix Materials: Polymers, Metals, Ceramics, Concrete, Geopolymers
• Interfaces
• Prepregs
• Nanocomposites
• Hybrid and Hierarchical Composites
• Foams, Cellular and Lattice Materials

Physical and Structural Behavior

• Buckling and Stability
• Creep
• Ductile and Pseudo-Ductile Composites
• Durability, Ageing, and Environmental Effects
• Dynamic Response
• Electrical Properties
• Failure Mechanics and Simulations
• Fatigue
• Fracture and Damage
• Hybrid Structures
• Impact and Dynamic Response
• Joining and Joints
• Lightning Strike and Fire Safety
• Micromechanics
• Multiphysics Modelling
• Multiscale Modelling
• Sandwich Structures
• Short and Long Fibre Composites
• Textile Composites
• Thin Ply Composites
• Uncertainty Quantification

Experimental Techniques

• Acoustic Emission and Ultrasonic Methods
• Data-Driven and Full-Field Methods
• Micro- and Nano-Scale Testing
• Multiphysics-Based Experimental Testing
• Non-Destructive Evaluation
• Novel Test Methods
• Optical Fiber Sensors
• Tests in Severe Conditions
• Thermography
• X-ray Computed Tomography

Manufacturing

• 2D and 3D Textile Reinforcements and Their Composites
• Additive Manufacturing
• AI in Processing
• Autoclave and Out-of-Autoclave Methods
• Automated Placement Technologies
• Braided Composites
• Forming and Stamping
• Inline Process Monitoring and Quality Control
• Liquid Molding, Pultrusion, Filament Winding
• Machining
• Manufacturing of Discontinuous Composites
• Process Modelling and Simulation
• Sustainable Manufacturing
• Tailored Preforms
• Up-Scaling and Automation for Industr
• Welding and Bonding

Functionality and Smart Systems

• Adaptive Response and Reconfiguration
• EMI Shielding
• Energy Storage and Harvesting
• Integrated Smart Devices and Structural Integration
• Self-Healing
• Sensing and Actuation

Design, Repair, and Lifecycle

• Advanced Computational Methods
• AI-Assisted Design Methods
• AI-Enabled Composites
• Architected Composites
• Bio-Inspired Designs
• Composite Pressure Vessels
• Environmental Impact and Life Cycle Assessment
• Interface Design
• Maintenance and Repair
• Metamaterial Designs
• Recycling, Remanufacturing, and Circular Economy
• Structural Health Monitoring and Quality Control
• Sustainability by Design
• Topology/Design Optimization

SPECIAL SESSIONS

1: Delaminations and debonding in composite materials and structures

2: Additive manufacturing (3D/4D printing, AFP) for advanced composites

3: Power Ultrasonics in Processing and Joining of Composites and Multi-Materials

4: Self-healing polymer composites – A perspective on design, mass-manufacturability and techno-economic feasibility for structural applications

5: Impact dynamics of composites

6: CirKle – Recycling materials for aircraft cabin components

7: Cryogenic Testing and Material Characterisation

8: Experimentation and Modelling of Composite Materials and Structures under Dynamic Loading and Environmental Conditions

9: Methods and tools to support the certification by analysis of composite structures

10: Understanding and improving longitudinal compressive strength

11: Advanced Composite Materials and Structures: Multifunctional Design, Damage Diagnostics, Testing, and Modeling

12: Long Discontinuous Fibre Composites: Processing, Microstructure, Properties and Performance

13: Digital Twins and AI for Composite Manufacturing: Modelling, Monitoring and Control

14: Session Honoring Mostafa Abdalla

15: AI and Mechanics for Composite Design, Optimisation, and Digital Twins

16: Characterisation of recycled composites

18: Composite Materials for Hydrogen Economy

19: Fatigue and Damage Mechanics of composites and composite structures

20: History of composites

21: Computed tomography

22: Toroidal Propellers for Efficient and Sustainable Aviation – The TorPropel project

23: Advanced composites under extreme conditions

24: Additive manufacturing of Composites for lightweight structural applications

25: Sustainable Composites Engineering: Innovations from a Doctoral Training Centre

26: EcoComposites Cluster – Sustainability of composites in the transportation sector

27: Nature-Inspired Composites: From Natural Fibres to Biomimetic Structures

28: Intelligent Production Technologies for Load-Dedicated Graded Polymer Composite Structures

29: Multi matrix composites – design principles and processing technologies

30: Variable-stiffness composites

31: Novel (multi-)functional composite materials

32: Durability of polymers and fibre reinforced polymer composites

33: Exploring challenges: from novel observations to paradigm shifting applications of composites