Technical paper winners announced for CAMX 2021

CAMX – The Composites and Advanced Materials Expo has announced the Technical Paper Award winners for 2021. Every year, CAMX recognizes outstanding research that will impact the next generation of composites innovation. CAMX technical papers cover critical areas that are important to the composites and advanced materials industry from business, applications, and research perspectives. 

Congratulations to this year’s winners:

• “Fabrication and Applications of Vascular Composites in the Automotive Industry”: Dr. Anthony M. Coppola.
• “Fabrication of Composite Truss Structures by Combination of Robotic Filament Winding and 3D Printed Adhesive Elements”: Florian Denk, Alec Redmann, Jonas Nieschlag, Marius Dackweiler, Sven Coutandin, Daniel Miller, Sue Mecham, Tim A. Osswald, Jürgen Fleischer.
• “Grafting-based Thermoplastic-Thermoset Bonding for Aerospace Structures”: Saurabh Vaidya, Wout De Backer, Michel J. L. van Tooren, Igor Luzinov.
• “Novel Environmentally Friendly Bio-Based Thermoset Resins and Performance”:  Dr. Yongning Liu, Mitra Ganewatt.
• “The Benefits of FRP Bridge Decks for Rural Communities”: John Unser, Jeff McCay, Scott Lewit, Henry Pate.
• “Thermal 3D Digital Image Correlation Measurements to Characterise Discontinuous Long Fibre Composite Parts”: Dr. Sébastien Kohler, Samuel Stutz, Lionel Germanier, Frederic Perrottet, Nicolas Weibel.

Additionally, CW also highlighted an aggregation of technology innovations that made an appearance at the show.