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Typical Attendees
This course picks up from where our stage 1 engineers and designers course ended. Having gained an intuitive approach to composites, we now build more layers onto this approach using structured problem solving of real issues and possible solutions. Originally the course was a bridge between production and design to aid communication between departments and to support training for CAE tools such as Fibresim. It has now evolved into a course that gives a lot of experience in a short time frame and accelerates delegates knowledge and understanding of composites. The course is suitable for anyone who has to deal with composites at any technical level. Pre-requisite Prior completion of DMSC61 composites for engineers and designers stage 1. Structure 25% theory, 75% practical, 12 delegates maximum |
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NEW COURSE UPDATE 2025
We have left many delegates at the end of the stage 1 course wanting to know even more but understanding that it is not posible to squeeze any more content into the stage 1 course. This has often led to many after course discussions, as well as a lot of consultancy work for us including: problem solving; prototyping; tooling production; through to complete design & development projects.
We have found, during our consultancy work, delegates are able to understand our approach and gain further mentoring. However, many are not involved directly in composite design, but are actively involved in composite production and development work, addressing production problems, discussing composites with sub-suppliers and more, on a regular basis.
We have not removed any technical content from our stage 2 course but we have re-arranged it, added further content and revised some of the practical tasks accordingly. To this extent, our stage 2 course better reflects the way in which we take a holistic approach to anything composites and is aligned to current industry thinking for the future.
The course is suitable for anyone involved in technical composites. The course still follows a structured problem solving approach during the practical sessions, which has been proven in accelerating prior delegates further understanding of composites. Some of the new content involves tolerances, weight estimates, lower/upper varition, de-bulk factors in addition to the revised content in the table below.
We have left many delegates at the end of the stage 1 course wanting to know even more but understanding that it is not posible to squeeze any more content into the stage 1 course. This has often led to many after course discussions, as well as a lot of consultancy work for us including: problem solving; prototyping; tooling production; through to complete design & development projects.
We have found, during our consultancy work, delegates are able to understand our approach and gain further mentoring. However, many are not involved directly in composite design, but are actively involved in composite production and development work, addressing production problems, discussing composites with sub-suppliers and more, on a regular basis.
We have not removed any technical content from our stage 2 course but we have re-arranged it, added further content and revised some of the practical tasks accordingly. To this extent, our stage 2 course better reflects the way in which we take a holistic approach to anything composites and is aligned to current industry thinking for the future.
The course is suitable for anyone involved in technical composites. The course still follows a structured problem solving approach during the practical sessions, which has been proven in accelerating prior delegates further understanding of composites. Some of the new content involves tolerances, weight estimates, lower/upper varition, de-bulk factors in addition to the revised content in the table below.
Composites for engineers and designers 2 course content
| DMSC62 | Session 1 09:00 - 11:00 |
Session 2 11:15 - 13:15 |
Session 3 13:45 - 15:45 |
Session 4 16:00-18:00 |
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| Monday | Introduction Equipment issue Theory & Demos Recap on composite theory, materials & processes Material advances |
Theory & Discussion Composites as an alternative to traditional materials Conceptual & initial design aspects Environmental, economic & recycling in the design cycle |
Practical & Discussion Conceptual designInitial design of composite parts & structures Material & weight estimates Costing estimates |
Theory & Discussion Orientation standards, part & mould side definitions & handing issues Balanced & unbalanced laminates Distortion & springback |
| Tuesday | Practical & Discussion Design a range of laminates using various materials to address balanced, unbalanced, semi-isotropic, distorted, undistorted, springback & handed issues |
Theory & Discussion Ply datums & placement Draping, distortion, deviation & sequences Joins, splices, darts, discontinuities & sequences Production of lay-up manuals |
Practical Design of laminates over a range of shapes/features to address datums, placement, draping, distortion, deviation, joins, darts, discontinuities, & laminate sequence issues |
Discussion Review of laminate designs and potential issues |
| Wednesday | Practical Prepare material plies to the laminate designs completed |
Guided Practical Laminate materials to the designs completed Identify, record & solve problems encountered due to material application Vacuum bag & cure parts |
Theory & Discussion Metal verses composite tooling & thermal expansion issues Tooling & component features & design principles Tiled and templated laminating methods for composite tooling |
Demo & Practical Preparation of patterns including fitting split/joint boards, shaped locators & releasing Lamination of a mould tool using tiled, orientated and balanced plies and vacuum de-bulks |
| Thursday | Practical Design of a range of composite mould tooling over a range of shapes/features to address both laminate and production process requirements |
Discussion Review of mould tooling designs in relation to laminate and production requirements and potential issues |
Theory & Discussion Structural laminate & ply loading requirements Consideration shape, joins, inserts and fixings |
Practical Complete simple indicative calculations to establish initial processes, materials, insert design and structural laminate requirements |
| Friday | Discussion Review of calculations completed and initial laminate designs and potential issues |
Practical Design of mould split lines, laminate & ply sequence to meet structural requirements Compilation of lay-up manual to produce the structural parts |
Discussion Review of designs to meet structural requirements and potential issues |
Written Test Reinstate Workshop Equipment return Summary / Feedback |
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