| EPSRC Reference: |
EP/K50323X/1 |
| Title: |
Industrial Doctorate Centre in Composites Manufacture |
| Principal Investigator: |
Partridge, Professor IK |
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| Department: |
Aerospace Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Bristol |
| Scheme: |
CDT - NR1 |
| Starts: |
01 October 2012 |
Ends: |
31 March 2019 |
Value (£): |
3,926,972
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Manufacturing Machine & Plant |
Materials Processing |
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Summary on Grant Application Form |
The theme area is manufacturing of engineering composites structures, specifically those which comprise continuous high
performance fibres held together with a polymeric matrix. The relevant industry areas include aerospace, automotive,
marine, wind energy and construction.
The proposal demonstrates urgent and growing need in the UK polymer composites manufacturing sector for suitably
technically qualified individuals, able to make positive and rapid impact on its international manufacturing competitiveness.
The new IDC fills an existing gap in provision of industrially focussed higher level education in the UK, in the specialist
discipline of polymer composites manufacturing. It will have its centre of gravity in Bristol, with the new National
Composites Centre (NCC) the natural home-base for the cohort of composites manufacturing Research Engineers,
embedded in the composites manufacturing industry. This new applied research activity focussed at TRL 3-5 will be
different from but highly complementary to the outputs of EPSRC Centre's composites manufacturing PhD students and
those in the Bristol ACCIS DTC working on more fundamental research topics in composites at TRL 1-3. Achieving a
clearer definition of the industrial composites manufacturing challenges and of new knowledge base requirements will
provide direction for the industrially relevant accompanying fundamental research.
The EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Composites will establish and maintain a close synergistic connection
between the new IDC, the Systems IDC at the University of Bristol and the Manufacturing Engineering EngD Centre lead
from the University of Nottingham. This will establish a critical mass of industrially focussed composites manufacturing
research activity in the UK, raising the national and international status of the EngD brand in the composites industry, in academia and in professional institutions by targeted dissemination through the EPSRC Centre, in conjunction with the NCC.
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| Organisation Website: |
http://www.bris.ac.uk |