Industrial Doctorate Centre in Composites Manufacture

主题领域是工程复合材料结构的制造，特别是那些由连续高性能纤维与聚合物基体结合在一起的结构。相关行业领域包括航空航天、汽车、船舶、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技术合格的人才，能够对其国际制造业竞争力产生积极和快速的影响。新的IDC填补了英国在提供工业重点高等教育方面的现有空白，in the specialist专业discipline纪律of polymer聚合物composites复合manufacturing制造.它的重心将在布里斯托，新的国家复合材料中心（NCC）是复合材料制造研究工程师队伍的天然基地，嵌入复合材料制造业。这个新的应用研究活动集中在TRL 3-5将是不同的，但高度互补的输出EPSRC中心的复合材料制造博士生和那些在布里斯托ACCIS DTC工作在TRL 1-3复合材料更基本的研究课题。对工业复合材料制造的挑战和新的知识库需求的更清晰的定义将为工业相关的基础研究提供方向。EPSRC复合材料创新制造中心将建立和保持新的IDC、布里斯托大学的系统IDC和诺丁汉大学的制造工程工程中心之间的密切协同联系。这将在英国建立一个以工业为重点的复合材料制造研究活动的临界质量，提高EngD品牌在复合材料行业，学术界和专业机构中的国家和国际地位，通过EPSRC中心与NCC一起进行有针对性的传播。

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.