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7th International Symposium on Automated Composite Manufacturing





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Day 2: Tuesday 14 April 2026

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08:30   Doors open & coffee
09:00   Conference opening by Julien van Campen & Daniël Peeters
09:10   Keynote by Thomas Kruse-Strack (Airbus)
09:50   Session 1: Technologies for Additive Manufacturing
09:50
20 mins
Photogrammetry in Large Format Additive Manufacturing: an alternative tool for machining setup and inspection
Pedro Andre Garcia Camino, Lucas Abia Hof, Simon Joncas
10:10
20 mins
Cost-effective large scale 3D printing of continuous fibre-reinforced thermoplastic composites using UD tapes
Erik Kramer, Menno Jan Rietema, Bert Weteringe
10:30   BREAK
11:00   Session 2: Trajectories for Automated Fiber Placement
11:00
20 mins
Fibre Path Planning for Automated Fibre Placement on Doubly Curved Structures
Avyadhish Malladi, Christos Kassapoglou, Daniël Peeters
11:20
20 mins
Layup Strategies for in-situ Automated Fiber Placement of Complex Geometries
Lukas Raps, Ashley Chadwick, Heinz Voggenreiter
11:40
20 mins
Design for Manufacturing studies for AFP manufactured Thermoplastic CFRP components at an early development stage
Julian Schuster, Maximilian Holland
12:00
20 mins
Continuous Trajectory Generation for the Automated Manufacturing of Super-Ellipsoidal Composite Pressure Vessels
Gregorio Ferreira, Shahrzad Daghighi, Giovanni Zucco, Paul Weaver
12:40   LUNCH
14:00   Session 3: Thermoplastic Tapes
14:00
20 mins
Relevance of deconsolidation on the porosity of thermoplastic cfrp tubes wound with direct electrical resistance heating
Jonas von Heusinger, Yannis Grohmann, Mihai Fetecau, Jonas Naumann, Daniel Stefaniak, Clemens Dransfeld
14:20
20 mins
A Quantified Comparison of Commercial CF-LMPAEK Tapes
Ashley Chadwick, Yannick Schäfer, Clara Thaldorf, Stefan Fliescher
14:40
20 mins
Flax to the Future: Processing–Structure Relationships in Continuous Natural Fiber Thermoplastic Tapes
Dimitrios Apostolidis
15:00
20 mins
Pulsed Flashlamp (HUMM3) Heating of Thermoplastic Composite Tape in In-Situ Automated Fiber Placement: Thermal Response and Physical Changes
Kasahun Niguse Asfew, Julie Teuwen, Daniël Peeters
15:20   BREAK
15:50   Session 4: Manufacturing Simulation
15:50
20 mins
Is laser cutting a suitable alternative for cutting carbon fibre preforms?
Dominic Stratton
16:10
20 mins
Composite Thermoforming Defect Identity Cards: Cause, Prevention, Detection, Significance, and Progression
Matthew Godbold, Ben Francis, Liam Burns, Ramy Harik
16:30
20 mins
The effect of dry vs. wet winding on residual stresses in composite pressure vessels
Ivan Komala, Julien van Campen, Daniël Peeters, Morteza Abouhamzeh, Sebastian Heimbs
16:50   BREAK
17:10   ACM8 pitch
17:40   Transportation to CEAD for the Welcome Reception