Get to know Professor Geoff Gibson who is a key note speaker at the LIGHTer International Conference. We are highly honoured to be able to welcome him in Gothenburg on November 20-21.
"It took a revolution in the speed of prepreg placement technology to get composites used in the airframes of the Airbus A350 and the Boeing Dreamliner- but look at the weight-savings and other advantages that were achieved by doing this. We need to extend this revolution to other application fields."
"My specific concern is to ensure that the gains made in structural design are not eclipsed by poor fire considerations."
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We are proud to present Mr Silvan Halter as a key note speaker at the LIGHTer International Conference.
"New, innovative solutions with a high potential for weight and cost reduction require the involvement of many different departments and also a willingness to take a certain development risk. Large customers are often risk averse, have short development cycles and have a complex organization and decision taking process. The trend of including suppliers and sub-suppliers into the development process of new products and systems therefore needs to be rethought." |
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We are very much looking forward to listen to Assistant Professor Sofia Teixeira de Freitas from Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
"However, despite the fact that composite are far more weight-efficient than metals, today’s composite aircraft are as heavy or even heavier than their full-metal counterparts. By upscaling, the composite materials are “loosing” their strength-to-weight efficiency. The most important challenge in my field at this moment is to bring the composite material weight efficiency from a material level to a full-scale structure"
"My research is focused on developing non-conventional composite bonded joints towards damage resistance and fasteners-free bonded joints."
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Sveriges förmåga att utveckla världsledande kompetens inom lättviktsteknik kommer att vara avgörande för vår industris konkurrenskraft och tillväxt inom landets styrkeområden. Därför bygger LIGHTer framtidens samarbete inom lättvikt: gränsöverskridande, fokuserat och effektivt.
Har ni några frågor eller synpunkter på nyhetsbrevet och/eller dess innehåll, tveka inte att höra av er.
Finansiärer:
Det strategiska innovationsprogrammet har fått stöd från Vinnova, Energimyndigheten och Formas. |
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