Fibre-Reinforced Polymer-Matrix Composite Materials and Structures
Education
UK and Ireland universities
Undergraduate
BSc (honours) Marine and Composites Technology
(Plymouth)
BEng (honours) Mechanical Engineering with Composites
(Plymouth)
Plymouth graduates
Composite Materials Engineering Program
(Winona State University - USA)
Postgraduate
MSc Advanced Composites
(Manchester)
MSc Advanced Composites and Polymers
(Ulster)
MSc Advanced Composites Design
(University of Bolton)
MSc Advanced Materials
(Cranfield University)
MSc Advanced Materials
(Surrey)
MSc Composite Materials
(Imperial College)
MSc Composites
(Glyndŵr)
MSc(Eng) Polymers and Polymer Composites Science and Engineering
(Sheffield)
MSc Advanced Engineering Materials
(Chalmers University)
Continuing Professional Development
Advanced Composites Manufacturing Centre
ACMC Short Courses for industry
Composites Skills Alliance
Dark Matter Composites
National Skills Academy
:
Composites Skills Alliance
South West Composites Gateway
Organisations
Composite companies in Devon and Cornwall
Professional institutions
British Composites Society (a division of IOM3)
Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining (IOM3)
Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)
Society for the Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering
SAMPE UK and Ireland Chapter
Research Centres
Advanced Composites Manufacturing Centre (ACMC Plymouth)
Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC Sheffield)
Airbus Advanced Composites Manufacturing Centre (Filton)
GKN Low-Cost Manufacturing Centre (IoW)
National Composites Centre
National Composites Certification and Evaluation Facility (NCCEF Manchester)
North-West Composites Centre (NWCC Manchester)
Pera
(production engineering)
Smithers Rapra
(rubber and plastics)
TWI Non-Destructive Testing Validation Centre (Port Talbot)
Thematic Networks
Advanced Materials Forum
Auxetic Materials Network
BioMatNet (non-food RTD projects funded by the EU)
BioNIS (Biomimetics Network for Industrial Sustainability)
COMPOSITN (Use of Composite Materials Within the Transport System)
Cure monitoring
DRIVEnet (design for dismantling, reuse and recycling in road vehicles)
ESP-net (Electrochemical Scanning Probe)
Faraday Advance
Faraday Plastics and Polymer Partnership
Industrial Symbiosis
LimesNet: Low Impact Materials and innovative Engineering Solutions research Network
Materials KTN (Knowledge Transfer Network)
National Composites Network
National Non-Food Crops Centre
Network Group for Composites in Construction
SIMoNET (Structural Integrity Monitoring)
SPARC (Strategic Promotion of Ageing Research Capacity)
EQUAL (Extending Quality Life of Older People and Disabled)
Sports SET Network (SET = Science, Engineering and Technology)
SusCompNet (Sustainable Composites)
VOPnet (Vegetable Oil Polymers)
WINGnet (Waste reduction IN aircraft-related Groups)
Trade bodies
British Plastic Federation
Composites UK
Information
Case studies
Bicycles
Composite bridges in Europe
Marine case studies
Learning support materials
Abbreviations and acronyms
About Composites/Plastics
Crystic Composites Handbook (Scott Bader)
Engineering Fundamentals (efunda): Composite Materials
Gurit Guide_to_Composites
John Summerscales' webpages
(and subject index)
Marine Composites (10MB PDF - Greene Associates)
NetComposites: Guide to Composites
Owens Corning: Composite Solutions
Review papers on composites
Post 16 Physics Day 05 December 2008
Risk assessments
Suppliers
Created by John Summerscales on 17 October 2008 and updated on 03 April 2012 18:01.
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