Wednesday April 9:

16.00-18.00  Registration: Weston Conference Centre (Days Hotel),  Sackville Street, Manchester

18.30-19.30  CIVIC RECEPTION for delegates and their partners by the Lord Mayor of Manchester,

                    Manchester Town Hall, Albert Square.

                    (Delegates can go directly to the Town Hall or join a group leaving the Conference Centre at

                    18.00 to walk to the Town Hall.)

Thursday April 10:

8.30-9.00  Registration: Weston Conference Centre (Days Hotel),  Sackville Street, Manchester

9.00-9.05  Welcome   John Hearle, Conference Chair; Xiaogang Chen, Co-Chair

9.05-9.15  Opening Speech  Robert Young, Head of School of Materials, University of Manchester, UK

SESSION (1) OVERVIEW OF DEVELOPMENTS

Chair: Brian McCarthy, Director, TechniTex Faraday, UK

9.15 Keynote speaker: Alan Prichard, Boeing Company, Techno-economic significance of 3D fabrics for the aerospace industry.

9.45  John Hearle

TexEng Software Ltd & University of Manchester, UK

Innovation for 3D fabrics

10.05 Mansour Mohamed

3TEX Inc, North Carolina, USA

Recent advances in 3D weaving

10.25 Frank Ko

University of British Columbia, Canada

Recent advances in 3D braiding

10.45  Discussion

11.00  Coffee break

SESSION (2) 3D  BRAIDED FABRICS

Chair: Chris Rudd, University of Nottingham, UK

11.30  Alexander Bogdanovich

3TEX Inc, North Carolina, USA

New 3-D rotary braiding technology for high-speed manufacture of unitary, complex shape preforms and composites.

11.50  Janpeter Horn

August Herzog Maschminenfabrik GmbH, Germany

Advantages in braiding: industrial manufacturing of 3D braids.

12.10  Asami Nakai

Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan

Fabrication of 3D braided fabric learning from historical Japanese braid.

12.30  Discussion

12.45  Lunch

13.30  Posters

SESSION (3) 3D WOVEN FABRICS

Chair: Thomas Gries,  Institut fur Textiltechnik, Aachen, Germany

14.00 Keynote speaker: John Croft, UK Home Office Scientific Development Branch, Textiles for police protection

14.30  Xiaogang Chen

TexEng Software Ltd & University of Manchester, UK

CAD/CAM of 3D woven fabrics on conventional looms

14.50  Nandan Khokar

Biteam AB, Sweden

Second-generation woven profiled 3D fabrics from 3D weaving

15.10    Alagirusamy

          Ramasamy

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

Multilayer interlocked 3D woven structures – fabric construction and properties.

15.30  Discussion

15.45  Tea break

SESSION (4) 3D KNITTED FABRICS

Chair:  Kim Gandhi, Consultant, UK

16.15  Subhash Anand

University of Bolton, UK

Knitted 3D structures for technical textile applications.

16.35  Jimmy Lam

Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Principle and development on 3D knitted fabrics, a knitter’s perspective

16.55  Filipe Soutinho

University of Minho, Portugal

Design of 3D weft-knitted fibrous preforms for FRP tube connections.

17.15  Discussion

17.30-18.30  Posters

19.00 Conference Dinner. Speaker: Chris Carr, Deputy Head of School of Materials, University of Manchester

FRIDAY, APRIL 11

SESSION (5) 3D TEXTILE COMPOSITES

Chair:  Paul Hogg, University of Manchester, UK

9.00 Keynote speaker: Jack Gillespie, Center for Composite Materials, University of Delaware, USA, Composites from the 20th to the 21st Century

9.30 Richard Day

University of Manchester & NW Composites Centre, UK

Techno-economic evaluation of 3D fabrics for composites.

9.50 Alexander Buesgen

Shape 3 Innovative Textiltechnik, GmbH, Germany

Simulation and realisation of 3D woven shapes for automotive applications.

10.10  Discussion

10.30  Coffee break

SESSION (6): DESIGN AND MODELLING OF 3D FABRICS

Chair: Bhuvenesh Goswami, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA

11.00  Keynote speaker: Xiaoming Tao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China, Smart 3D fabrics.

11.30  Stepan Lomov

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Modelling 3D fabrics and 3D reinforced composites: challenges and solutions.

11.50  Martin Sherburn

University of Nottingham,  UK

Prediction of textile geometry using strain energy minimisation

12.10  Masaru Zako

Osaka University, Japan

A proposal of stress/strain analytical procedure of textile composites with stitch by M3 method

12.30 Yordan Kyosev

Niederrhein University of Applied Science, Germany

Modelling of 3D double bed warp knitted fabrics

12.50  Discussion

13.10  Lunch

SESSION (7) 3D TEXTILE COMPOSITES (continued)

Chair:  Prasad Potluri, University of Manchester, UK

14.10 Yong Kim

University of Massachusetts, USA

Fracture toughness of 3D braided and Z-directional microfiber reinforced composite

14.30 Scott King

University of Ulster, UK

The influence of through-the thickness binder fibre count on fibre volume fraction, crimp and damage tolerance within 3D woven carbon fibre composites.

14.50  Britta Kuckhoff

RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Development and industrial manufacturing of innovative reinforcement for textile reinforced concrete.

1510  Francois Boussu

ENSAIT,  France

Delamination behaviour of 3D warp interlock structures.

15.30  Discussion

15.50  Tea break

SESSION (8): THE WIDER FIELD

Chair:  John Hearle, Chairman of TexEng Software Ltd, UK

16.10  Janette Matthew

Loughborough University, UK

Laser assisted design of 3D pleated structures

16.30  Carmen Loghin

Technical University, Iasi, Rumania

Conductive textile based composites.

17.10-17.30  Discussion & Closing Remarks