Programme
The draft programme for FPCC can be found below. Note that this is subject to change.
Wednesday 7th September 2022
10:00 Welcome and opening - FPCC organisers
10:10 Opening Address - University of Bradford
10:20 Keynote: Industry Trends and the Opportunities for Composites
Jeff May, Construction Products Association
Session: Codes & Design
10:50 A Structural Eurocode for Fibre-polymer Composite Structures
Roberto Frassine, Politecnico di Milano
11:20 Break/Networking
Session: Codes & Design continued...
11:50 Developing an Assurance Framework for Fibre-polymer Composites
Graham Sims/Mike Gower, NPL
12:20 Design and Analysis And/or FRP Structures and Components
Toby Mottram, University of Warwick
12:50 Parametric Modelling of FRP Strengthened RC Flexural Members
David Tann, University of East London
13:20 Lunch/Networking
Session: Composite Rebar
14:30 Keynote: Shear Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Beams With Embedded FRP Bars
Samir Dirar, Birmingham University
15:00 Influence of Aggressive Environmental Conditions and Sustained Load on the Degradation Mechanisms of Vinyl Ester GFRP Rebars
Nora Susanne Bies, Matthias Pahn, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
15:30 Break/Networking
Session: Bridges
16:00 Development of an Innovative FRP Footbridge
Andy Cross, Network Rail
16:30 Design and Fabrication of Pultruded Cellular FRP Road Bridges
Lee Canning, Jacobs
17:00 DAY 1- CLOSE
Optional reception and conference dinner in the evening, starting at 19:15
Thursday 8th September 2022
09:30 Keynote: The Construction Industry - Where's it Heading?
Mike Moseley, i3P/KTN Construction
Session: New Materials
10:00 Date Palm Fibre Reinforced Composites: Fibre Geometry and Properties of Polymeric Composite Systems
Said Awad, Mizi Fan, Yonghui Zhou, Evina Katsou, Brunel University
10:30 Glass-GFRP Sandwich: Structurally Superior Laminated Glass
Feyza Yildirim, University of Southampton & Mithila Achintha, Manchester University
11:00 Break/Networking
Session: Structural Strengthening
11:30 CFRP in Structural Retrofitting: Shear Behaviour of Reinforced Concrete (RC) Beams With Near Surface Mounted (NSM) CFRP Strips
Mohammad Ibrahim Awad Al-Zu'bi, Mizi Fan, Lorna Anguilano, Yousef S. Al Rjoub, Ahmed M. Ashteyat and Mazen J. Al-Kheetan, Brunel University
12:00 Bonded FRP-strengthened Steel Beams Under Temperature and Load Cycles
Tim Stratford, University of Edinburgh
12:30 Lunch /Networking
Session: Monitoring
13:30 Keynote: Unique Real-time and In-situ 3-dimensional Strain Monitoring of Laminated Composites Using Embedded Planar Optics
Christopher Holmes, University of Southampton
14:00 Evaluation of Bond in the Deformability Indices of CFRP Pretensioned Concrete Structures
Eleni Toumpanaki, University of Bristol
14:30 Break/Networking
15:00 Effect of Strip Stiffness in Reinforced Concrete Members Strengthened with Carbon and Basalt
Fibre-Reinforced Polymers
Szymon Grzesiak, Matthias Pahn and Milan Schultz-Cornelius, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
15:30 Modelling of the Splitting Failure Mode in Textile-Reinforced Concrete
Philipp Preinstorfer, University of Cambridge
16:00 2022 CONFERENCE CLOSE