{"id":1152,"date":"2018-07-17T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Academic-News\/WEBINAR-Exploring-Current-Composite-Trends-with-Teesside\/ba-p\/451578"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:14:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:14:55","slug":"webinar-exploring-current-composite-trends-with-teesside-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/webinar-exploring-current-composite-trends-with-teesside-university\/","title":{"rendered":"WEBINAR: Exploring Current Composite Trends with Teesside University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Originally posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/user\/viewprofilepage\/user-id\/33711\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Julianne Bass<\/A> in <a href=\"https:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Fibersim-News\/bg-p\/Fibersim_blog\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Fibersim News<\/A><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SPAN>Composites are becoming increasingly predominant in automotive lightweight strategy to meet strict emission regulations and increase fuel efficiency. However it brings a whole new set of challenges to design, analysis, manufacturing, data management and quality assurance.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/global\/en\/webinar\/automotive-composite-trends\/21307\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right\" style=\"width: 400px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/09\/Teesside1-1.png\" alt=\"Teesside1.png\" title=\"Teesside1.png\" \/><\/span>In this<SPAN>&nbsp;free&nbsp;<\/SPAN>webinar<\/A>, Dr. David Hughes&nbsp;explores a series of current trends in the<SPAN>&nbsp;<\/SPAN><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/automotive-transportation\/composites\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">automotive composite<\/A>&nbsp;sector. Dr. David Hughes is a Senior lecturer at<SPAN>&nbsp;<\/SPAN><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tees.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Teesside University<\/A><SPAN>&nbsp;<\/SPAN>specializing in materials engineering. His work focuses around polymer composite processing and production. David works with a number of regional and international partners innovating and developing composite solutions.&nbsp;<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The webinar topics include waste reduction techniques, fibre recycling and thermoplastic composites.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>We review the use of geopolymers as performance surface materials enabling significant improvements in thermal degradation and service temperature of composite structures.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>&nbsp;<span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-left\" style=\"width: 400px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/09\/Teesside2-1.png\" alt=\"Teesside2.png\" title=\"Teesside2.png\" \/><\/span><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The webinar also addresses the current composite design skills gap and how<SPAN>&nbsp;<\/SPAN><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en\/products\/fibersim\/index.shtml\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Fibersim<\/A><SPAN>&nbsp;<\/SPAN>is being integrated into Teesside University\u2019s undergraduate degree program exploring impacts on students and employability.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>From this session you will gain an understanding of:<\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>current automotive composite trends<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>strategies for pre-preg waste reduction<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>geopolymers and performance surface plies<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>how digital manufacturing can be used to bridge the composite skills gap<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\n<P>Let us know what you think in the comments below!<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted by Julianne Bass in Fibersim News <\/p>\n<p>  Composites are becoming increasingly predominant in automotive lightweight strategy to meet strict emission regulations and increase fu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30619,"featured_media":1159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,99],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-tips-tricks"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/09\/Teesside2-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/1160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}