BCI & NCC 2023 Annual Conference1 December 2023On 16 November the Bristol Composites Institute (BCI) welcomed over 150 guests to the 2023 BCI & NCC Annual Conference, titled "Composites of the Future: Tomorrow's Materials and Applications"
International workshop on the fracture toughness of composites14 November 2023Professors Michael Wisnom of Bristol Composites Institute, Yentl Swolfs of KU Leuven and Federico Paris of the University of Seville hosted an online workshop on Composite Fracture on 14th November.
Upcoming CerTest Workshop & Panel Session At ICCM 2327 June 2023The much anticipated Composites Regulations Workshop and Panel Session led by the CerTest team will be taking place on Tuesday 1 August at ICCM in Belfast.
Composites CDT hosts STEM outreach day with Sixth Form pupils6 June 2023On 18 May, the ACCIS/CoSEM CDTs hosted a STEM Outreach Day for a group of 50 Sixth-Form pupils from Katharine Lady Berkeley’s School in Gloucestershire. Led entirely by the current CDT students, there were four activities that ran throughout the day in rotation, highlighting the exciting opportunities in composites engineering.
CoSEM CDT student receives ORE Catapult prize10 May 2023CoSEM CDT Ph.D. student James Griffith has been awarded the annual Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult prize for the ‘Best Taught Mark in the CoSEM CDT Taught Component'.
ACCIS CDT student wins Victrex journal paper prize
2 May 2023Ph.D. student Gianni Comandini has been awarded the annual Victrex prize for the ACCIS CDT ‘Best Journal Paper for the Development of Composite Materials’.
CoSEM CDT students win Hexcel project prize
2 May 2023Ph.D. students James Griffith and Christian Stewart have been jointly awarded the annual Hexcel prize for the best CoSEM CDT three-month research project.
Composites Manufacturing Simulation Takes A Leap Forward21 April 2023To mark the closure of the EPSERC funded SIMPROCS Platform grant at the Bristol Composites Institute, a dissemination event was held at the NCC on 20 April.
BCI Doctoral Research Symposium 202319 April 2023On 4 April 2023 the Bristol Composites Institute (BCI) welcomed over 100 delegates from academia and industry to the Bill Brown Design Suite, Queen’s Building, for its annual Doctoral Research Symposium.
Sixth international workshop in the measuring strength series28 March 2023Professors Michael Wisnom of Bristol Composites Institute, Yentl Swolfs of KU Leuven and Federico Paris of the University of Seville hosted an online workshop on Composite Strength on 28th March.
Bristol Composites Institute celebrates February 2023 graduates13 March 2023The Bristol Composites Institute, EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Advanced Composites for Innovation and Science and the Industrial Doctorate Centre (IDC) in Composites Manufacture celebrate the success of their recent graduates.