CCLab hosts ICSS-12 Conference
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The Composite Construction Laboratory hosted the 12th International Conference on Sandwich Structures, ICSS-12, from 19 to 22 August.
The Conference was attended by more than 110 participants, both from industry and academy, representing 25 countries from four continents - America, Asia, Europe and Oceania.
The ICSS conferences constitute one of the largest and most prestigious events covering the general topic of sandwich structures in the naval, aerospace, automotive, mechanical and civil engineering and architecture fields. Following the previous conference in Fort Lauderdale (USA) in 2016, ICSS-12 was the 12th in this series, which started in Stockholm (Sweden) in 1989. It was the second to be held in Switzerland, the first being ICSS-5 in Zurich in 2001.
ICSS-12 aimed to provide a forum for world leaders in sandwich structures for the exchange and discussion of their latest research results and developments in such different sectors as aircraft, spacecraft, train and automotive applications, wind turbine blades, boat/ship hulls and superstructure, bridge and building construction.
The Technical Program comprised 84 presentations given in two parallel sessions during the three days. The total of 22 sessions covered a wide range of topics related to sandwich construction, including delamination/disbond, impact, fatigue, thermal effects, design, modeling, core materials, manufacturing and applications). Furthermore, four keynotes were presented by Prof. Amir Fam (Queen’s University, Canada), Prof. João R. Correia (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal), Dr. Ronald Krueger (National Institute of Aerospace, USA), and Prof. Christian Berggreen (Technical University of Denmark).
The Conference was sponsored by the US. Navy Office of Naval Research Global (ONRG), 3A Composites Core Materials, ThermHex Waben GmbH and Diab International AB.
