Programme
The draft programme for FPCC can be found below. Note that this is subject to change.
Tuesday 6th September 2022
10:00 Welcome and opening - FPCC organisers
10:10 Opening Keynote - University of Bradford
10:30 Keynote: The Construction Industry - Where's it Heading?
Mike Moseley, i3P/KTN Construction
11:00 Break/Networking
Session: Design
11:30 Design and Fabrication of Pultruded Cellular FRP Road Bridges
Lee Canning, Jacobs
12:00 Preparation of a Resistance Formula for Net-Tension Failure of Single and Multi-rowed Bolted Connections of Fibre-Polymer Composite
Toby Mottram, University of Warwick
12:30 Parametric Modelling of FRP Strengthened RC Flexural Members
David Tann, University of East London
13:00 Lunch
Session: Bridges
14:00 Development of an Innovative FRP Footbridge
Andy Cross, Network Rail
14:30 Railway Bridge Fully Relying on Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer Suspender Cables
Urs Meier, EMPA - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
15:00 Three-pronged Assessment of GFRP Deck Fatigue Under Wheel Loads
Wendel Sebastian, UCL
15:00 Break
Session: Durability
15:30 Effectiveness of Polyurea Coating System on Steel Corrosion and Adhesion
John Myers, Missouri University of Science and Technology
16:00 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
16:30 Modelling of the Splitting Failure Mode in Textile-Reinforced Concrete
Philipp Preinstorfer, University of Cambridge
17:00 Break
Early Career Researcher Poster Competition
17:30 Poster Competition Pecha Kucha
18:30 CLOSE
Wednesday 7th September 2022
09:30 Keynote
Su Taylor, Queens University Belfast
Session: Monitoring
10:00 Bond Assessment of Glass Fibre-reinforced Polymer Bars Embedded in Fibre-reinforced Fly Ash-based Concrete
John Myers, Missouri University of Science and Technology
10:30 Unique Real-time and In-situ 3-dimensional Strain Monitoring of Laminated Composites Using Embedded Planar Optics
Christopher Holmes, University of Southampton
11:00 Evaluation of Bond in the Deformability Indices of CFRP Pretensioned Concrete Structures
Eleni Toumpanaki, University of Bristol
11:30 Break/Networking
Session: Codes
12:00 Developing an Assurance Framework for Fibre-polymer Composites
Graham Sims/Mike Gower, NPL
12:30 A Structural Eurocode for Fibre-polymer Composite Structures
Roberto Frassine, Politecnico di Milano
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Keynote: Industry Trends and the Opportunities for Composites
Jeff May, Construction Products Association
Session: Sustainable Materials
14:30 Date Palm Fibre Reinforced Composites: Fibre Geometry and Properties of Polymeric Composite Systems
Mizi Fan, Said Awad, Yonghui Zhou, Evina Katsou, Brunel University
15:00 Wood-PLA Composites as Novel Building Façade: Influence of Coupling Agent Treatment and Wood Fibre Geometry on Mechanical Performance
Yonghui Zhou, Jorge Corker, Omar Abo Madyan, and Mizi Fan*, Brunel University
15:30 Break
Session: New Materials and Processes
16:00 Glass-GFRP Sandwich: Structurally Superior Laminated Glass
Feyza Yildirim, Mithila Achintha, Manchester University
16:30 Continuous Fibre Injection Process
Roger Onions, GTMA
17:00 CLOSE
Drink Reception & Conference Dinner to follow the conference on this evening.
Thursday 8th September 2022
Session: Composite Rebar
10:00 Keynote: Shear Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Beams With Embedded FRP Bars
Samir Dirar, Birmingham University
10:30 The Future of Construction - New Bendable Composite Rebars
Alexander Zoller, Elium
11:00 Effect of Material Parameters in Reinforced Concrete Members Strengthened With Carbon and Basalt Fibre Reinforced Polymers
Szymon Grzesiak, Matthias Pahn and Milan Schultz-Cornelius, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
11:30 Break/Networking
Session: Structural Strengthening
12:00 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
12:30 Bonded FRP-strengthened Steel Beams Under Temperature and Load Cycles
Tim Stratford, University of Edinburgh
13:00 Lunch & Conference Close