Industrial Doctorate Centre in Composites Manufacture

主题领域是工程复合材料结构的制造，特别是那些由连续的高性能纤维与聚合物基质结合在一起的结构。相关行业领域包括航空航天、汽车、海洋、风能和建筑。该提案表明，英国聚合物复合材料制造业迫切需要合适的技术资质人才，能够对其国际制造业竞争力产生积极而迅速的影响。新的IDC填补了英国在聚合物复合材料制造专业领域提供专注于工业的高等教育方面的现有空白。它的重心将设在布里斯托尔，新的国家复合材料中心(NCC)将成为复合材料制造研究工程师队伍的天然大本营，嵌入复合材料制造业。这一新的应用研究活动将集中在TRL 3-5，与EPSRC中心复合材料制造博士生和布里斯托尔ACCIS DTC在TRL 1-3从事更多复合材料基础研究课题的博士生的成果不同，但具有很强的互补性。更明确地定义工业复合材料制造的挑战和新的知识库要求将为与工业相关的相关基础研究提供方向。EPSRC复合材料创新制造中心将在新的IDC、布里斯托尔大学的系统IDC和诺丁汉大学的制造工程工程中心之间建立并保持密切的协同联系。这将在英国建立大量专注于工业的复合材料制造和研究活动，通过EPSRC中心和NCC的有针对性的传播，提高EngD品牌在复合材料行业、学术界和专业机构的国内和国际地位。

The theme area is manufacturing of engineering composites structures, specifically those which comprise continuous highperformance fibres held together with a polymeric matrix. The relevant industry areas include aerospace, automotive,marine, wind energy and construction.The proposal demonstrates urgent and growing need in the UK polymer composites manufacturing sector for suitablytechnically qualified individuals, able to make positive and rapid impact on its international manufacturing competitiveness.The new IDC fills an existing gap in provision of industrially focussed higher level education in the UK, in the specialistdiscipline of polymer composites manufacturing. It will have its centre of gravity in Bristol, with the new NationalComposites Centre (NCC) the natural home-base for the cohort of composites manufacturing Research Engineers,embedded in the composites manufacturing industry. This new applied research activity focussed at TRL 3-5 will bedifferent from but highly complementary to the outputs of EPSRC Centre's composites manufacturing PhD students andthose in the Bristol ACCIS DTC working on more fundamental research topics in composites at TRL 1-3. Achieving aclearer definition of the industrial composites manufacturing challenges and of new knowledge base requirements willprovide direction for the industrially relevant accompanying fundamental research.The EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Composites will establish and maintain a close synergistic connectionbetween the new IDC, the Systems IDC at the University of Bristol and the Manufacturing Engineering EngD Centre leadfrom the University of Nottingham. This will establish a critical mass of industrially focussed composites manufacturingresearch activity in the UK, raising the national and international status of the EngD brand in the composites industry, in academia and in professional institutions by targeted dissemination through the EPSRC Centre, in conjunction with the NCC.