Tuesday, June 26th 2012

PALAGALILEO PALAZZO DEL CINEMA
Session Tu1.1 Session Tu1.2
T.S. Computer aided design of a (nano) composite material: state of art and future challanges G.S. Nanostructured fibers and matrices
8.30 8.50 NANO TOOLS FOR MACRO PROBLEMS: MULTISCALE MOLECULAR MODELING OF NANOSTRUCURED POLYMER SYSTEMSM.Fermeglia (University Of Trieste) PREPARATION AND PROPERTIES OF COMPOSITE PREPARED FROM FLAME-RETARDANT-IMMOBILIZED SILICA NANOPARTICLEN.Tsubokawa (Niigata University)
8.50 9.10 A MOLECULAR DYNAMICS DERIVED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD FOR STRUCTURAL SIMULATIONS AND FAILURE OF GRAPHENE NANOCOMPOSITESA.A.Wilmes (Imperial College London) GRAFTING CARBON NANOTUBES ON CARBON FIBERS WITHOUT LOSS IN CARBON FIBER STRENGTH, USING THE EQUIMOLAR C2H2-CO2 REACTIONN.De greef (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (kul))
9.10 9.30 MODELING PERCOLATION IN CARBON NANOTUBES REINFORCED COMPOSITESN.Gramegna (Enginsoft Spa) DEVELOPMENT OF A POST-PROCESSING METHOD TO TAILOR THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CARBON NANOTUBE/NYLON FIBRESG.Palardy (Mcgill University)
9.30 9.50 ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS OF INTERFACES IN POLYMER COMPOSITES BASED ON SILICA NANOPARTICLESA.De nicola (Unisa) MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL BEHAVIOR OF A COMPOSITE PEEK / CARBON NANOTUBESF.Boyer (Institut Clement Ader)
9.50 10.10 A CONCURRENTLY COUPLED MULTI-SCALE MODEL FOR PREDICTING PROPERTIES OF THERMOPLASTIC AND THERMOSET NANOCOMPOSITESS.Roy (University Of Alabama)
10.30 11.15 Plenary Lecture 2: Fibre Reinforced Composites with Nanostructured Polymer Matrix - an Outline of Properties and Application Karl Schulte (TUHH – Germany)
Palazzo del Cinema
Session Tu2.1 Session Tu2.2
T.S. Mechanics of nanocomposites T.S. CNT nanocomposites
11.20 11.40 NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE TRIBOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF NANOPARTICLES ON THE SLIDING WEAR PERFORMANCE OF POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITESL.Chang (University Of Sydney) BROADBAND AC CONDUCTIVITY AND DIELECTRIC SPECTRA OF CERAMIC AND POLYMER COMPOSITES WITH CARBON NANOFIBRES AND NANOTUBES AROUND THEIR PERCOLATION THRESHOLDV.Bovtun (Institute Of Physics Ascr)
11.40 12.00 FRACTURE TOUGHNESS ENHANCEMENTS IN NANOCOMPOSITES: A MULTISCALE MODELM.Zappalorto (University Of Padova) THE EFFECT OF CARBON NANOTUBE GRAFTING ON THE TENSILE, SHEAR AND PEEL PROPERTIES OF POLYACRYLONITRILE-BASED CARBON FIBER/EPOXY BUNDLE COMPOSITESY.Inoue (Tokyo University Of Science)
12.00 12.20 A MULTISCALE ANALYTICAL MODEL TO ASSESS NANOCOMPOSITE FRACTURE TOUGHNESS IMPROVEMENTS DUE TO PLASTIC SHEAR BANDSM.Salviato (University Of Padova) MEASUREMENTS OF CARBON NANOTUBE TENSILE STRENGTH AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CARBON NANOTUBE/ALUMINA COMPOSITES PREPARED BY PRESSURELESS SINTERINGG.Yamamoto (Tohoku University)
12.20 12.40 A MOLECULAR MODELLING APPROACH FOR DESIGNING POLY(VINYL-ALCOHOL)-CHITOSAN MEMBRANES FOR CLINICAL USE WITH TAILORED TRANSPORT PROPERTIESA.M.Pandele (University Politehnica Of Bucharest) LIGHTNING STRIKE PERFORMANCE OF CARBON NANOTUBE LOADED AEROSPACE COMPOSITESA.A.Skordos (Cranfield University)
12.40 13.00 IDENTIFICATION OF DEFECTS IN CARBON NANOTUBESA.Muc (Cracow University Of Technology) ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF ULTRA-HIGH WEIGHT FRACTION CNT/POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES: INFLUENCE OF CNT ORIENTATION AND TYPE.M.Mecklenburg (Hamburg University Of Technology)
13.00 14.15

14.15 14.45
Keynote Lecture 3: A Path for Composite Materials Developmen Thomas K Tsotsis (Boeing-USA)
Session Tu3.1 Session Tu3.2
T.S. Mechanics of nanocomposites T.S. CNT nanocomposites
14.50 15.10 A THREE-PHASE RULE OF MIXTURES MODEL FOR THE EFFECTIVE ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF THE COMBINATION OF DISPERSED AND AGGLOMERATED MULTI-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES IN A POLYMER MATRIX T.Thorvaldsen (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (ffi)) CREEP BEHAVIOUR OF EPOXY/MWCNT COMPOSITES O.Starkova (Institute Of Polymer Mechanics, University Of Latvia)
15.10 15.30 COMPRESSION BEHAVIOUR OF A FIBRE BUNDLES AND FABRICS WITH GRAFTED CARBON NANOTUBESS.V.Lomov (K.u.leuven) ON LOCALIZATION OF CARBON NANOTUBES IN WOVEN GLASS FIBER/EPOXY COMPOSITES AND ITS EFFECT ON TENSILE PROPERTIES L.Gorbatikh (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (ku Leuven))
15.30 15.50 NANOMECHANICS OF ANTLER BONEA.H.Barber (Queen Mary University Of London) FRACTURE TOUGHNESS OF CARBON FIBER COMPOSITES BASED ON EPOXY/THERMOPLASTIC BLEND WITH CARBON NANOTUBESM.C.Tola (Nanocyl S.a)
15.50 16.10 REINFORCING EFFECT OF CARBON NANOTUBE (CNT) ON POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES: A NUMERICAL-ANALYTICAL STUDYA.Pantano (Università Degli Studi Di Palermo) MWCNTS FOR TUNING VISCOELASTIC AND INELASTIC PROPERTIES OF ELASTOMERIC MATERIALSM.Aurilia (Cytec Egineered Materials)
16.10 16.30 DYNAMIC MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND MELTING BEHAVIOUR OF POLY(LACTIC ACID)-HEMP-NANOSILICA HYBRID COMPOSITES I.R.Mustapa (Rmit University, ) CONDUCTIVE CNT-POLYIMIDE NANOCOMPOSITES AS SPACE DURABLE MATERIALS E.Grossman (Soreq Nrc)
16.30 16.50
COMPUTATIONAL MICROMECHANICS MODELING OF PIEZORESISTIVITY OF CARBON NANOTUBE POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITESG.D.Seidel (Virginia Tech)
Session Tu4.1 Session Tu4.2
T.S. Multiscale modelling (Nano to Macro) of smart nanocomposites T.S. CNT nanocomposites
16.50 17.10 MICROINDENTATION BEHAVIOR UNDER QUASI-STATIC AND CREEP MODES OF CARBON NANOTUBES (CNTS)-REINFORCED THERMOSETTING POLYMERS F.Chapalain (Ifsttar) EVOLUTION OF CARBON NANO-TUBE DISPERSION IN PREPARATION OF A FIBER-REINFORCED EPOXY-BASED COMPOSITE: FROM A CNT MASTERBATCH TO A COMPOSITEM.Aravand (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (kul))
17.10 17.30 ON THE WAY TO SMART BI-REINFORCED COMPOSITES TAKING ADVANTAGE OUT OF RECENT ADVANCES OF NANOMATERIALS AND NANOTECHNOLOGIES ... M.Drissi habti (Ifsttar) CARBON NANOTUBES BUCKYPAPERS OF CONTROLLED POROSITY AND THEIR NANOCOMPOSITESG.Trakakis (Institute Of Chemical Engineering And High Temperature Chemical Processes (ice-ht))
17.30 17.50
CHARACTERISTIC OF MODE I CRACK PROPAGATION OF CFRP LAMINATES TOUGHENED WITH CNF INTERLAYERM.Arai (Shinshu University)