Bristol Branch AGM
followed by
Material Tailoring for Lightweight and Morphing Structures - the shapes of things to come!
Paul Weaver, Professor in Lightweight Structures, Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Composites, University of Bristol
Thursday 16th April 2015
6.00pm for AGM, 6.30pm for lecture
Concorde Room, BAWA Leisure Centre
589 Southmead Road, Filton, Bristol BS34 7RG
Attendance
is free and open to members and non-members. If you are planning to
attend the lecture, you are kindly requested to register your attendance
here:
Simply put, a structure should resist loads without failing. Structures that contain humans, i.e. houses, boats, cars, aeroplanes, do not deform a great deal (thankfully!) and those that are required to move around (e.g. aeroplanes) should be lightweight to keep fuel costs down and to overcome gravity. This talk explores the possibility of using unusual properties of materials with some nonlinear geometric behaviour to either reduce mass or to achieve a significant shape change (morphing) of a structure with specific current research examples.
Concorde Room, BAWA Leisure Centre
589 Southmead Road, Filton, Bristol BS34 7RG
Attendance
is free and open to members and non-members. If you are planning to
attend the lecture, you are kindly requested to register your attendance
here:
Simply put, a structure should resist loads without failing. Structures that contain humans, i.e. houses, boats, cars, aeroplanes, do not deform a great deal (thankfully!) and those that are required to move around (e.g. aeroplanes) should be lightweight to keep fuel costs down and to overcome gravity. This talk explores the possibility of using unusual properties of materials with some nonlinear geometric behaviour to either reduce mass or to achieve a significant shape change (morphing) of a structure with specific current research examples.
