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SECOND WORLD CONFERENCE ON 3D FABRICS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

April 6-7, 2009, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Organised by TexEng Software Ltd, Manchester UK
in association with the University of Manchester, UK, theCenter for Composite Materials,
University of Delaware, USA, the Fiber Society and the Textile Institute


Conference Chair: Professor John W S Hearle.  Co-Chair: Dr Xiaogang Chen

Following the success of the First Conference in Manchester in April 2008, we are pleased to announce the Second World Conference on 3D Fabrics and their Applications in Greenville, South Carolina in April 2009. The advances in the technology are diverse. Solid 3D woven fabrics, which can be made on commercial machinery either as flat panels or 3D shapes, are of increasing importance in composites. They give a potential for major reductions in aircraft weight and have significant applications in military hardware. The stimulus to development given by these uses opens up possibilities in automotive, construction, medical and many other fields. Hollow woven fabrics with multiple voids find their applications where lightweight, energy absorption, and material strength are important. Tubular forms can be multiply branched. For some forms, braiding is an alternative to weaving. Advances in knitting mean that whole garments can be produced, so that stitching together of separate pieces is eliminated. Electrospinning leads to a 3D assembly of helices at different scales and there are advances in other nonwoven technologies. These technologies can be adapted to make complex 3D shapes for technical uses. 3D shells can be made by weaving, knitting, and nonwoven technology.

The application of information technology through CAD-CAM is important for the growth of the technology through efficient manufacturing. The meeting of the engineering requirements for demanding end-uses needs reliable specifications for product performance. Predictive modelling will be an important feature of the conference

 

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Chair: Professor Jack Gillespie, Director, Center for Composite Materials, University of Delaware, USA

Professor Philippe Boisse, INSA de Lyon, France
Dr. Niall Finn, CSIRO Textile & Fibre Technology, Geelong, Australia
Dr Nandan Khokar, Biteam, Sweden
Professor Yong Kim, University of Massachusetts, USA
Professor Frank Ko, University of British Columbia, Canada
Professor V K Kothari, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Professor Stepan Lomov, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Brian McCarthy, Director, TechniTex Faraday Ld, Manchester, UK
Dr Mansour Mohamed, 3TEX Inc, North Carolina, USA
Professor Behnam Pourdeyhemi, North Carolina State University, USA
Professor Amotz Weinberg, Shenkar College of Engineering & Design, Israel

ORGANISING AND PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Chair: Professor John Hearle, TexEng Software Ltd and School of Materials, University of Manchester, UK

Dr Xiaogang Chen, TexEng Software Ltd and School of Materials, University of Manchester, UK
Dr Hugh Gong School of Materials, University of Manchester, UK
Dr Bhuvenesh Goswami, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA
Brian McCarthy, Director, TechniTex Faraday Ltd, Manchester, UK
Dr Prasad Potluri, School of Materials, University of Manchester, UK

SCOPE OF CONFERENCE

3D FABRICS: woven – braided – knitted - nonwoven
multilayer flat sheets – 3D shaped solids
hollow fabrics – 3D shells - multiple connections
ENGINEERING
APPLICATIONS
  • design
  • machine control
  • manufacture
  • structure & geometry
  • modeling
  • mechanical properties
  • other performance features
  • testing
  • techno-economics
  • etc
  • aerospace
  • automotive
  • marine
  • military
  • construction
  • medical & health
  • protection
  • smart material
  • garments
  • etc


ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

The deadline for submission of papers for oral presentation has passed.  Poster abstracts can be considered up to February 28, 2009.

PUBLICATION

Oral and poster papers to be presented at the conference will be included in a CD, which will be given to delegates at registration. Full papers should be submitted by February 28, 2009.

PARTICIPATION

The conference programme is given below. Click here for registration information.. All speakers will be expected to register as delegates for the conference and pay a conference fee. Travel and accommodation expenses are the responsibility of each delegate and no direct compensation is awarded for speakers at the conference. Your submission of an abstract testifies to your acceptance of these financial conditions.

PROGRAMME

Monday April 6
7.30-8.30 Registration with Coffee/Tea, Fruit Juice, Muffins, Croissant, Bagels and Danish

8.30 Chair: Jack Gillespie, University of Delaware, USA
Welcome: John Hearle, Xiaogang Chen, Bhuvenesh Goswami

8.45 John Hearle

TexEng Software Ltd and University of Manchester, UK

Diversity and issues for 3D fabrics.

3D woven fabrics (1)
Chair:  Amir Islam, Bally Ribbon Mills, USA

9.15 Jack Gillespie

 University of Delaware

Composites for aerospace.

9.45 Chiang-Fong Yen:

US Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi,Maryland, USA

Modeling of 3D fabrics and composites for improved protection.

10.10 Philippe Boisse

INSA, Lyon, France

Meso-macro approch for 3D interlock composite preforming simulations.

10.30 Xiaogang Chen

TexEng Software Ltd and University of Manchester, UK

CAD, structure and applications of 3D hollow woven fabrics.

10.50-11.20 Coffee and tea break.

11.20 Mansour Mohamed 

3Tex, Cary, North Carolina, USA

Manufacture, properties and applications of 3D woven composites.

11.40 Stepan Lomov

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Finite element modelling of 2D and 3D woven composites.

12.00 Nandan Khokar

Biteam AB, Gothenburg, Sweden

Evolving specifications for the development of 3D fabric-forming technologies.

12.20 Introductions to posters.

1.00-2.30 Lunch: own choice of hotel or main street

3D nonwoven fabrics
Chair: Subhash Batra, North Carolina Sate University, USA

2.30 Darrell Reneker

University of Akron, Ohio, USA

3D structures by electro-spinning

3.00 Gregory Grissett and Behnam Pourdeyhimi

North Carolina  State University, USA

Deep molded nonwovens and hybrid nonwoven composites: process and applications. 

3.20 Michael Ellison & Keith Green;

Clemson University, South Carolina, USA

R-TEX: a fiber-based, nonwoven, mass-customizable system.

3.40-4.10 Coffee and tea break

4.10 William Walker, Peter Popper & Albert Tam

DuPont
(to be presented by John Hearle)

Direct formation of textile shapes via a self-interlacing micro-geometry or structure Process: SpiderWeb

4.30 Hugh Gong & Khaled Nassar

University of Manchester, UK

Manufacturing 3D shell nonwoven products.

4.50 Kostya Kornev

Clemson University, South Carolina, USA

Deployable wet-responsive fibrous materials.

5.10 Close of session
6.30 Reception and Dinner
Speaker: Byron Pipes, Purdue University, Indiana, USA


Tuesday April 7
7.30-8.30 Coffee/Tea, Fruit Juice, Muffins, Croissant, Bagels and Danish

3D woven fabrics (2)
Chair: John Hearle, TexEng Software Ltd, University of Manchester, UK

8.30 Thomas Gries, Britta Skoeck-Hartmann, Jan Stueve & Stefan Gies, Leif Eckert & Thomas Schneidewind

Institut fuer Textiltechnik & Institut fuer Kraftfahrzeuge, RWTH Aachen University and AUDI AG, Ingoldstat, Germany

3D fabrics for automotive use.

9.00 Julie Soden

University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK

3D multiple layer natural fibre architectures for composites

9.20 Francois Boussu

ENSAIT, Roubaix, France

Effect of 3D-weave architecture on strength transfer from yarn to fabric.

9.40 Ahmad Abu Obaid

Center for Composite Materials, University of Delaware, USA

Effects of 3D weaving on tensile strength retention of Z-tows.

10.00 M. Peralba,
P.J.J. Dumont, J.-F. Bloch & S. Rolland du Roscoat, & M. Duba, P. Mangin

Institut polytechnique de Grenoble & Universite de Grenoble, France & Universite de Quebec, Canada

Influence of structure and wear of paper forming fabrics on their permeation properties.

10.20 Gaurav Nilakantan

Center for Composite Materials, University of Delaware. USA

A numerical investigation into the effects of 3D architecture on the impact response of flexible fabrics

10.40-11.10 Coffee and tea break.

3D knit fabrics
Chair: Bhuvenesh Goswami, Clemson University, USA

11.10 S.C.Anand, M Seed, B.Kandola, & J.Timmis

Bolton University & Remploy Frontline, UK

Novel 3D composite materials for personal protective equipment (PPE).

11.30 Yordan Kyosev

Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Germany

3D Modelling of warp knitted structures under consideration of the mechanical properties of the yarns.

11.50 Hong Hu

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

3D biaxial spacer weft knitted structure and its reinforced composites properties under transversal impact.

12.10 Steffen Janetzko

Institut fuer Textiltechnik, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Development of metal 3D-spacer-warp-knit fabrics for the application of hybrid metal plastic products.

12.30-1.50 Lunch: own choice of hotel or main street

3D braids and 3D fabric composites
Chair: Subhash Anand (MBE), University of Bolton, UK

1.50 Guido Grave, Karin Zimmermann, Klaus Drechsler , Anna Rathjens, Yordan Kyosev,

August Herzog Maschinenfabrik GmbH, Institut für Flugzeugbau, University of Stuttgart & Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Simulation of 3D overbraiding – solutions and challenges.

2.10 Li Jinchao

Tianjin Polytechnic University, China

Micro-structure and finite element modeling of 3d five –directional braided composites.

2.30 Jan Stueve

Institut fuer Textiltechnik, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

New advances in 3D braiding technology biomimetic 3D-braided iso-truss structures.

2.50 F. Stig &
S. Hallsträm

The Royal Institute of Technology,  Stockholm, Sweden

Influence of crimp on 3D-woven fibre reinforced composites.

3.10 Raul Fangueiro

University of Minho, Portugal

Mechanical properties of composite materials reinforced by 3D hybrid basalt fiber structures.

3.30 Guillaume Perie

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Meso-scale nalyzin and nalyzingtion of interlock reinforced composite

3.50 Closing remarks
4.00 Close

 

POSTERS

Anupam Bhatia

Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune, India

Futuristic fabrics: Smart Textiles.

Daria Monaenkova

Clemson University, South Carolina, USA

Absorption-induced deformations in fabrics and yarns.

Xingfeng Guo

Tianjin Polytechnic University, China

The structural design and weaving of the woven preform fabrics used for integral composite pressure vessel winding.

Lei Xu

Tianjin Polytechnic University, China

Fabric woven structures and the vibration properties of their composite cantilever plates.
(I) Natural frequency and damping.

Lei Xu

Tianjin Polytechnic University, China

Fabric woven structures and the vibration properties of their composite cantilever plates
(II) Fractures in the free vibration

Michal Frydrysiak

Technical University of Lodz, Poland

Resistance model of textronic breath frequency sensor.

Stempien Zbigniew

Technical University of Lodz, Poland

High speed acquiring 3D system for analyzing of ballistic body armour deformation.

Suresh Lalwani

College of Engineering & Technology, Akola, India

Physical characteristics of cotton/nylon core-spun yarn made on ring & airjet spinning systems.

Vijoya Sa

Clemson University, South Carolina, USA

Single walled carbon nanotube-alginate fibers as sensor supports.

 

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