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7th International Symposium on Automated Composite Manufacturing





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Day 3: Wednesday 15 April 2026


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Main
08:30   Doors open & coffee
09:00   Keynote Jimmy Tchen (Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking)
Chair: Daniël Peeters
09:00
40 mins
Competitiveness. Sustainability. Technology. Clean Aviation Strategy to tackle aviation’s top three challenges
Jimmy Tchen
09:40   Session 5a: Advances in Manufacturing Automation
Chair: Sayata Ghose
09:40
20 mins
Non-conventional strategies for manufacturing tank structures using Automated Fiber Placement
Sovit Agarwal, Dominik Delisle, Julius Biermann, Stefan Junker
10:00
20 mins
Hybrid Robotic Winding with Integrated Multi-Material Application: A Unified Software–Hardware Approach for Advanced Composite Manufacturing
Soren Blomaard, Rob Barendse
10:20   BREAK
10:50   Session 5b: Advances in Manufacturing Automation
Chair: Sayata Ghose
10:50
20 mins
Automated Manufacturing of Thermoplastic Composites: Technology development from manual to automated manufacturing processes of high aspect ratio parts
Guus Roosken
11:10
20 mins
Improving Robotic Drilling Accuracy in CFRP Structures through RTM-Embedded Reference Markers and Parallel-Kinematic End-Effectors
Maximilian Muth, Philip Carstensen, Wolfgang Hintze, Christoph Brillinger, Christian Möller, Christian Böhlmann
11:30
20 mins
Robotic Large Format Additive Manufacturing for On-Demand Tooling for Composites
Michael Cargill, Patrick Bailey, Aywan Das, Wout De Backer
11:50   Poster pitches
Chair: Julien van Campen
11:50
1 mins
Automated Fabric Deposition
Matthijs Bosboom, Lex Zwang, Sjef van Breugel, Tomek Krzysztofiak
11:51
1 mins
Process Parameters and In-Situ Sensing Techniques for High Pressure Resin Transfer Molding
Victor Gadow, Ramy Harik, Mike Maher
11:52
1 mins
humm3 Xenon flash heating: single heat source for composites in automated fiber placement applications
Martin Brown, Ross Kitson
11:53
1 mins
Design, fabrication, and mechanical properties of Glass-Kevlar hybrid composites for tidal turbine blades
Wanting Cui
12:00   Networking lunch & posters
13:00   Labtours
14:30   Session 6: Automated Fiber Placement
Chair: Wout De Backer
14:30
20 mins
Fiber Steering, Waviness and Strength: Correlating out-of-plane-deviation with tensile strain fields in automated fiber placement
Kevin Scheiterlein, Noah Möller, Julian Schuster
14:50
20 mins
Thermal Analysis of Incoming Tape during In-Situ Consolidation by Automated Fiber Placement Using a Novel Experimental Measurement Technique and Conjugate FVM Simulation
Mahmoud Fereidouni, Suong Hoa
15:10
20 mins
Experimental Assessment of Compaction Pressure Distribution in Automated Fiber Placement: Model Validation and Unforeseen Mechanisms
Benjamin Francis, Matthew Godbold, Ramy Harik
15:30
20 mins
Effects of repassing on the geometric characteristics of CF/LM-PEAK tapes deposited via Humm3-assisted in-situ consolidated AFP
Gamar Ismayilova, Andre Florindo, Daniël Peeters
15:50   BREAK
16:10   Session 7: Thermoplastic Composites
Chair: Ashley Chadwick
16:10
20 mins
Automated Ply Placement, the established way to make high-rate composite parts
Marcus Kremers
16:30
20 mins
Experimental and Numerical Study of CF/PEEK Composites in Laser-Assisted Tape Placement with Heated Tool Temperature Above Tg
Hong Ma, Aswani Kumar Bandaru, Paul Weaver
16:50
20 mins
Therplastic composite cylindrical shell made by 4D printing
Suong Hoa, Mahmoud Fereidouni
17:10
20 mins
Improving Interlayer Bonding in Thermoplastic AFP Through Vibration-Assisted Thermal Bonding and Repass Strategies
Arash Khodaei, Allyson Fontes, Farjad Shadmehri
17:40   Short walk to the boats for the canal cruise and conference dinner