Professor Fabrizio Scarpa

Advanced Composites Ctre for Innovation & Science University of Bristol, UK

Time：14:00 PM, 12th September, 2016

Address：Room 326 Cao Building, Yuquan Campus  

Inviter: Prof. Hua-xin Peng

Abstract

The talk will provide an overview about the history of composite materials and basic calculation tools to design laminates and short fibre composites. We will look at the fundamentals of long and short fibres lamina and their mechanical behaviour, Classical Laminate Theory and 'back-on-the envelope' formulas for composites design. We will also show how to apply composites laminate theory to calculate the thermal, moisture adsorption and dielectric properties of composites. Apart from providing formulas, we will discuss the physics behind the design tools used size composite structures.

Bios 

Fabrizio Scarpa is Professor of Smart Materials and Structures at the Advanced Composites Centre for Innovation and Science (ACCIS), at the moment considered the largest academic composites group in the world. Professor Scarpa works in the field of composite and nanocomposite materals, auxetics (negative Poisson's ratio), smart and natural fibre materials and synthetic biology. He collaborates with major blue chip companies like Rolls-Royce plc, GKN Aerospace, Safran and Airbus, and he is involved in several UK and EU projects with small medium enterprises, R&D and academic centres for applications of these materials in airframe design, vibroacoustics, shape morphing and structural integrity. Professor Scarpa is one of the High End Foreign Experts of the Governement in the area of composite materials. He has authored more than 300 journal and conference papers, and he is also Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

InCSI Special Composites Seminar (No.4)