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 12th SIMoNET Meeting, Provisional Programme

 Composites, sensors, networks,
and more, in Structural Integrity Monitoring

9.30am - 3.20pm, 23rd November 2005
UCL NDE Centre, Dept of Mechanical Engineering,
Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE

Registration for the seminar is free - send an email to

Draft Programme


9:30

Registration and coffee (Venue UCL Main Building, Old Refectory)

9:50

Chairman Introduction 

Professor W D Dover, UCL

 

10:00

Building bigger and better in FRP Composites

 

David Kendall, White Young

Green Consulting Ltd

10:20

West Mill Bridge Health Check - 3 years on

 

Lee Canning

Mouchel

10:40

Rapid Validation of Marine Composite Structures

Roger Gregory

Composite Inspection Ltd

11:00

Chemical Process and Structural Health Monitoring of Composites Using Fibre Optic Sensors: Problems and Issues

 

Gerard Fernando

Birmingham University

11:20

Questions

 

11:40

A performance-based qualification scheme for composite materials systems to be used in the civil infrastructure

James Broughton

Oxford Brookes

12:00

The Smart Materials, Surfaces and Structures Network [SMARTmat]

Jeremy Ludlow

QinetiQ

12:20

Questions

 

 

12:40

Lunch

 

1:40

Modelling of Ultrasound Propagation in Fibre Reinforced Aerospace Composites

Nader Saffari

UCL Mech Eng

2:00

The National Validation Centre

Phillip Wallace

TWI Ltd

2:20

SIM systems for aircraft

 

Eddie O'Brien

Airbus

2:40

Questions

 

 

3:00

Aircraft Structural Integrity Monitoring within the UK Military

Tiny Smith

MOD

3:20

AE for damage assessment during landing gear fatigue testing

Karen Holford

Cardiff University (To be confirmed)

3:40

Opportunities for structural monitoring using ultrasonic guided waves

 

Peter Mudge

TWI

4:00

 

Questions

 

4:20

Seminar ends

 

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