Experience SAMPE’s Technical Expertise and Unmatched Networking Opportunities on a Global Scale

SAMPE Global is proud to announce our collaboration with JEC World to bring technical programming directly to the JEC World show floor this year, showcasing expertise from our regions on some of the most critical and innovative topics in advanced materials and composites.

Organized under four themes – True Circularity, Accelerating Materials and Process Development Through Digitization, Extreme Composites, and Future Factory – each 20-minute session will explore some of our industry’s most pressing issues from SAMPE’s uniquely global perspective.

Also, for the first time, JEC World will host the final of the new “Young Engineers Challenge” by SAMPE Europe. The challenge is to demonstrate an improvement in the sustainability of an existing product or component, reducing the overall environmental impact while ensuring it is economically viable and fit for purpose.

Important Dates

SAMPE Europe 2025 Summit
March 3 | Pullman Paris Tour Eiffel Hotel

JEC World 2025
March 4 – 6 | Paris Nord Villepinte

SAMPE Technical Sessions 2025 and Young Engineer Challenge @ JEC World
March 5 | Open Stage – Paris Nord Villepinte

Opening Session

9:30 AM – 9:40 AM: Welcome Remarks, Introduction to SAMPE Global

Speakers:

• Rebekah STACHA, CEO, SAMPE
• Christian-André KEUN, CEO CompriseTec GmbH & Past Global President, SAMPE

Topic Block 1 – True Circularity

9:40 AM – 10:00 AM: Green Composites for Circular Economy

Beginning from the ambitious target of green aviation, we participated in ECO-COMPASS project co-funded by Chinese and European governments. In line with the project and behind, we have been developing green materials and application technology for composite, particularly for the next generation of aircraft industry. This development not only includes semi structural materials for secondary and interior aircraft application, but also for composite process consumable materials, for example breather and flow mesh etc. They showcase a possible and feasible industrial circular economy. Success stories will be presented and demonstrated. We are looking forward to future cooperation with any industrial and academic partners.

10:00 AM – 10:20 AM: Aerospace Composite Materials Circularity – Our Path to Sustainable Value

Successfully paving the aerospace composite materials circularity path will reach through our entire product lifecycle for ultimate success.   Engagement from raw materials through OEM’s and airlines to recyclers will achieve the practical and technically sound solutions required to maintain current fleet 90+% recyclability levels.  Pete will share Boeings work on that path which started in the early 2000s for factory excess recycling and is now focusing on end of life.

10:20 AM – 10:40 AM: Recycling Technology Development Strategy Based on LCA and its Sensitivity Analysis

Although FRP was less consumed than metal materials and plastics, it will ‘really’ have to be recycled in the near future. In order to consider the direction of creating more valuable FRP services on the basis of recycling as well as minimising the impact of climate change and resource depletion, there is a growing need to develop and improve the accuracy of FRP’s LCA. This presentation will show how data incompleteness in LCA can be considered and how decisions can be made.

10:40 AM – 11:00 AM: Bio-based Precursors Towards High Performance Thermoset Material

In the field of epoxy thermosets, diglycidylether of bisphenol-A (DGEBA) is the most common resin used due to fast curing with diamine or anhydride compounds and to the production of low cost and high thermal properties thermosets. However, due to health and environmental concerns, the design of safer resins is today a hot topic. In this presentation, the design of novel biobased epoxy monomers from lignin, vegetable oils and abietic acid together with their use as source of high-performance thermoset materials will be discussed.

Topic Block 2 – Accelerating Materials and Process Development Through Digitization

11:10 AM – 11:30 AM: AI Leading a New Era in Composite Materials: Innovative Strategies in Development, Lean Manufacturing, and Technological Synergy

This presentation delves into the pivotal role of Artificial Intelligence in revolutionizing the composite materials industry. We will share how AI accelerates the development of innovative materials, enhances defect detection, and optimizes production processes, paving the way for an intelligent and highly efficient future in composite materials.

11:30 AM – 11:50 AM: AI-Driven Digitization in Composites: Accelerating Materials and Process Innovation

Discover how AI-driven digitization is transforming the field of composites by leveraging experiments, digital lifecycle models, and physics-informed neural networks. This talk explores groundbreaking approaches to accelerate composite material and manufacturing process discovery, enabling rapid development and optimization. Gain insights into how these advancements are driving efficiency, sustainability, and performance in composite engineering.

11:50 AM – 12:10 PM: Machine Learning Driven Morphology Analysis of CFRP: Advancing Composite Sustainability

Complexity and variability increase as CFRP sustainability requirements incorporate discontinuous fibers and thermoplastic matrices. Machine learning provides a promising approach for analyzing CFRP morphology and mechanical properties, overcoming challenges posed by complex internal geometry. This presentation highlights current outcomes and the potential of machine learning aided morphology analysis in advancing CFRP sustainability.

12:10 PM – 12:30 PM: Bio-based Precursors Data-driven Development of Advanced Resins and Composites 

The expanding composite materials market increasingly demands enhanced features such as improved performance, circularity, and the incorporation of bio-based components. Data-driven approaches are accelerating the research and development of new resins and composites, enabling the identification of innovative solutions. Notable examples demonstrate the successful application of data analysis and machine learning techniques in this field.

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM: Young Engineers Challenge – Final

Form a team of up to 4 individuals and pick a component of your choice. Working with a mentor supplied by SAMPE Europe, show how you would improve the component’s present sustainability by proposing a route to reduce its environmental impact. Sustainability improvements can be in any area, and examples could include areas of reducing waste or embodied energy; improving design for disassembly; light weighting; reducing operations and maintenance; or extending the service life.

Entries will consist of a 2-minute video outlining your proposal.

The best teams will be selected to go forward.

In the second round selected teams will be offered an impartial, industrial mentor to help prepare their presentation for the final event.
Final judging will take place on Wednesday 5th March 2025 in the Open Stage during the SAMPE Technical Sessions at JEC World 25 Paris.

Participants:

• Participants must be within 10 years of completing their undergraduate degree
• Teams should consist of at least 2 members, up to a maximum of 4
• Teams may contain undergraduate, postgraduate/postdoctoral researchers and early career engineers working in industry
• Only one entry per team. However, universities/companies are welcome to enter multiple teams if they wish

Submission form can be accessed here.

Topic Block 3: Extreme Composites

2:00 PM – 2:20 PM: Phthalonitrile Resins based Polymeric Bi-Continuous Electrolyte for High-Temperature Structural Battery Composites

Structural battery integrated composites (SBICs) combining outstanding strength and heat resistance are highly desirable candidates for next generation high speed aircraft. Here, we present a novel high-temperature-resistant bi-continuous electrolyte based on phthalonitrile resin, allowing the construction of SBICs capable of stable operation across a wide temperature range. The demonstration of resist mechanical abuse at high temperatures and flame retardance further suggests the promise of SBICs with bi-continuous electrolytes operating under extreme conditions.

2:20 PM – 2:40 PM: Advanced Manufacturing of High-Performance Composites

Through a $20M appropriation from the state of Utah, Weber State University stood up a new facility in November 2023 for advanced manufacturing of high temperature composites called the Miller Advanced Research and Solutions (MARS) Center. The MARS Center is developing next generation capabilities for carbon/carbon and ceramic matrix composites using advanced manufacturing equipment such as additive manufacturing, rapid sintering and densification processes, and liquid metal infiltration. High fidelity prototypes are fabricated using new materials and processes to ensure affordability and manufacturability. The manufacturing equipment can accommodate full-scale or close to full-scale prototypes to accelerate technology and manufacturing readiness from levels four (4) to six (6). In addition to advanced manufacturing, the MARS Center is also equipped to assess mechanical and thermal properties up to 1600°C. Advanced nondestructive evaluation tools utilizing both robotic x-ray CT and laser UT technologies ensure that all composite structures are fully inspected prior to delivery and test. By providing academic, industry, and government partners equipment, expertise, engineering, manufacturing, and testing capacity the development of advanced composite materials for hypersonic vehicles, rocket motors, and reentry applications is accelerated with rapid transition to the defense industry.

2:40 PM – 3:00 PM: CyFT™ : Next-Generation Hybrid CFRP Prepreg with Carbon Nanotubes (CNT) 

Carbon Fly Co., Ltd. has developed the hybrid prepreg, CyFT™, by integrating CFRP with 100% carbon nanotube (CNT) films, produced through careful quality control of individual CNT properties and their subsequent processing into film form.  CyFT™ exhibits outstanding properties including ultra-light weight, high strength and improved tensile elongation at break.  This presentation will provide a detailed overview of the technological features of CyFT™ and explore the vast potential of advanced CNT technology.

3:00 PM – 3:20 PM: Understanding the Cause of Residual Stresses in Carbon-PAEK Laminates at Cryogenic Temperature

This study presents a multiscale experimental analysis of aerospace grade Carbon fibre (CF) / Polyaryletherketone (PAEK) composites materials, when exposed to cryogenic temperature. The scope of this work comprises four experiments: 1) On the microscale, a comparative study of fibre-matrix-compatibility by single fibre pull-out testing method. 2) On the mesoscale, the determination of thermal expansion via expansion-probe Thermo Mechanical Analysis (TMA) and the flexural modulus via three point bending PT-Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA) over the range of -150 °C up to 300 °C. 3) On the mesoscale, a combination of gas permeation testing and visual inspection of transverse micro-cracking via micro-CT scanning after a cyclic thermal loading of unidirectional and cross-ply laminates. 4) On the macroscale, quasi-static tensile testing of unidirectional laminates in longitudinal and in transverse direction at ambient and at cryo-temperature.

Topic Block 4: Future Factory

3:30 PM – 3:50 PM: Automation Technology for G1c Testing Based on Intelligent Detection

Model interlaminar fracture toughness is an important physical property between the layers of composite materials, which is closely related to the interface debonding and layered failure of materials. Crack Monitoring of Fracture Toughness System Based on Damage-recognition Algorithm of Intelligence Vision, the deep neural network is used to accurately extract the effective features of cracks, and realize the pixel positioning of tiny cracks in the large field of view. The test process is simplified and the test results are automated, which greatly improves the accuracy of data and improves the test efficiency.

3:50 PM – 4:10 PM: Automation for Competitive Advantage – A Path to Component Fabrication with Reduced Touch Labor and Improved Quality

Processing of Thermoset and Thermoplastic Composite Components frequently remains a high touch labor activity. This drives not only higher costs but the potential for quality defects. How can engineering design and automation be implemented to alleviate this for several geometric constructs?

Speakers: Mel CLAUSON, Director of Business Development, Composite Resources, SAMPE North America

4:10 PM – 4:30 PM: Cutting Edge Automated CFRTP Fuselage Skin Panel Fabrication Process 

In this presentation, innovative manufacturing process developed by Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) that contributes to automated and high-rate production of thermoplastic composite skin panels for aircraft will be introduced. This process, called “local co-consolidation,” enables the automated and high-rate production of large-scale skin panels with complexity equivalent to traditional thermoset composite skin panels without using an autoclave.

Speakers: Naoki SHIMADA, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, SAMPE Japan

4:30 PM – 4:50 PM: DTU’s Large AI Models and High-Performance Simulations for Wind Turbine Blade Damage Inspection and Assessment  

This talk presents DTU’s latest research and innovation on large AI models and high-performance simulations to detect and analyze damage in composite wind turbine blades. Use case demonstrations to showcase advanced computer vision techniques for inspecting blade damage and high-performance simulations for assessing damage criticality in seconds.

SAMPE Technical Sessions Program Committee

Chair: Christian-André Keun
Secretary: Raj Manchanda

Members:

Xiaosu Yi

Jason Cui

Kazuto TANAKA

Kiyoshi UZAWA

Guy Larnac

Conchúr Ó Brádaigh

Bob Yancey

David Leach

Norm Wereley