Sirris Materials Day 2010 - Wrap up summary

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Program of today

12:30 - 14:00 - Welcome & sandwich lunch

14:00 - 14:10 - Opening the Sirris Materials Day 20010

14:10 - 15:10 - Introduction to the three interactive workshops by the speakers

15:10 - 15:30 - Break

15:30 - 17:30 - Interactive workshops (parallel sessions)
Composite materials - Prof. Ignaas Verpoest and Arno De Taeye
Smart Materials - René De Keyzer
Sustainable investments - Marc Lambrechts

17:30 - 18:00 - Keynote speech by Filip Martens, CEO, C- Power

18:00 - 18:30 - Closing session – Wrapping up key elements from the interactive workshops

18:30 - 19:30 - Walking Dinner

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Program of today




15:10 - 15:30 - Break


17:30 - 18:00 - Keynote speech by Filip Martens, CEO, C-Power

18:00 - 18:30 - Closing session – Wrapping up key elements from the interactive
workshops

18:30 - 19:30 - Walking Dinner


Composites
Wrapping up

Bart Vangrimde


Subject 1: Surface preparation and coating

• Challenge: tedious surface preparation of fragile composite

• Low pressure plasma looks promising to avoid manual surface
preparation of camera cases for space applications
• “we got enough information to go further”


Subject 2: Powder coating composites?

• Solutions for powder coating are in reach, problem is the
conductivity of CFRP.
• How to increase the conductivity?
• inclusion of nano-particles?
• nano-particles commercially available for integration in resins?
• Temperature of powder coating 150-200’C
• should not be an issue
• Outgassing when changing coating to be checked…


Subject 3: Composites in sun shields

• What are the benefits of composite design in sun shields?
• structural advantages in terms of strength/stiffness
• function integration (transparency, integrated lights)
• click-in instead of bolting/screwing

Alu GFRP GFRP CFRP CFRP
UD 0/90 UD 0/90

density rho 2,8 1,8 1,8 1,5 1,5

tension E1 70 42 21 130 65

E1/ρ 25 20 10 90 45

σ 240 1200 600 2000 1000

σ/ρ 90 700 350 1400 700

Price EUR 2 20


Subject 4: Steel as composite reinforcement

• Bekaert suggests using steel fibers for reinforced plastics.
• Possibilities to explore:
• electrical conductivity and electromagnetic properties
• recycling
• processing
• impact resistance

carbon

steel fibers are much tougher
steel than carbon fiber

• examples for “high weight applications” are small wind turbine
blades or golf shafts

Open challenges

• Life cycle analysis (LCA) of composite structures
• Opportunities for MICA
• Production of (metal matrix) composite materials on large
scale, in continuous processes


wall

Lessons learned blind box
with too little rigidity

window frame

• Challenging challenges challenged us!
• No no-gos for composites window
• Ways to explore identified

check out www.slc-lab.be carbon

steel
steel fibers are much tougher
than carbon fiber


SmartMaterials
Wrapping up

Heidi Van den Rul


Major challenges

• Does this technology works in my application/products?
More knowledge about functions
• Halochromic effect
• Tactile properties
• Dilatation depending on temperature
• Smart functions for traceabilty of food: packaging RFID
• Integration in the process of the smart coating
• application: vacuum – wet cost
• E.g. problem with Antifingerprint coating processing
• More than the function itself: stability, chemical resistance,
processability, how to test e.g. antibacterial
• Supporting innovation
• How to help SME’s to start with nanotech
• Governmental financial instruments are available


Fast evolving markets

• Antibacterial coatings are hot!
• Applicabilty still under questions

• RFID tags

• Color based smart materials
• Thermochromic
• Photochromic
• Halochromic
• mechanochromic


Top 3 lessons learned

• Offering of (theoretically) interesting functionality/properties
is already huge!
• Food packaging

• More insights/in depth knowledge required for applications
of new & advanced materials
• Smart
• Multifunctional

• Processing


Sustainable Materials
Wrapping up

Stefan Milis


Lesson 1:
Success factors needed!
Some success factors for the valorisation of more sustainable
materials solutions

• A win-win is created
• More functionality
• Lower or equal cost
• More energy efficiency on the life-time
• …
• Clear incentives to innovate towards cleantech
• Identify market opportunity over the value chains
• The hunting for hunting grounds is a very difficult challenge


Lesson 2:
Look beyond your Business Model
• From selling products to selling functions
• Driver for more sustainable products over the lifetime
• Energy, material, repair, reuse, recycling, ….
• Ecodesign!
• Different concepts exist
• Leasing
• Take back
• No one size fits all solution depending on:
• B2B, B2C
• Product Lifetime
• Material


Lesson 3:
Sustainable material selection, a puzzle?
• Some tools on sustainability (planet) exist
• Ecolizer
• Solidworks add-in
• LCA
• …
• Facilitates evaluation of alternatives, gives no new solutions
• No integrated solution towards product and process

• Real challenge is to close the gap between identification of
sustainable alternatives and the final application at an
acceptable cost


Program of today




15:10 - 15:30 - Break


17:30 - 18:00 - Keynote speech by Filip Martens, CEO, C-Power

18:00 - 18:30 - Closing session – Wrapping up key elements from the interactive workshops

18:30 - - Walking Dinner


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