PDF Downloads Available 2017 ACCE Papers Menu Additive Manufacturing & 3D Printing Bonding, Joining, & Finishing Business Trends & Technology Solutions Opportunities & Challenges with Carbon Composites Enabling Technologies Nanotechnologies Reinforcement Technologies Sustainable Composites Advances in Thermoplastic Composites Advances in Thermoset Composites Virtual Prototyping, Testing & Modeling Menu Additive Manufacturing & 3D Printing Bonding, Joining, & Finishing Business Trends & Technology Solutions Opportunities & Challenges with Carbon Composites Enabling Technologies Nanotechnologies Reinforcement Technologies Sustainable Composites Advances in Thermoplastic Composites Advances in Thermoset Composites Virtual Prototyping, Testing & Modeling Additive Manufacturing & 3D Printing Paper Title Author Company Link Using Additive Manufacturing Simulation to Enable Confident Lightweight Automotive Design Sylvain Calmels, Assaker, Souza e-Xstream engineering Read Paper Cellulose Nanofibrils-Reinforced Polypropylene for Extrusion-Based Additive Manufacturing Lu Wang University of Maine Read Paper Bonding, Joining, & Finishing Paper Title Author Company Link Understanding and Controlling the Bond Surface in Manufacturing for Reliable Adhesive Bonding of Composites Emily Dillingham BTG Labs Read Paper Polycarbonate-to-Polycarbonate Single Lap Joints with Polyurethane Film Adhesive Kerri Sakai Oakland University Read Paper Efficiency of Hybrid Fastening System with Varying Bolt Diameters Andrew Valentine Michigan State University Read Paper Business Trends & Technology Solutions Paper Title Author Company Link Future Trends for High Performance Materials in Structural Components for Existing and Alternative Propulsion Systems Volker Plehn, Satterwhite Toray Automotive Read Paper Opportunities & Challenges with Carbon Composites Paper Title Author Company Link High Quality Carbon Fiber Epoxy Prepregs for a Wide Range of Reinforcement Architectures Bharati Balizepalli Dow Chemical Company Read Paper Method to Utilize Aligned Carbon-Fiber Prepreg Trim Scrap for Structural Applications Amit Chaudhary Dow Chemical Company Read Paper VORAFUSE™ M6400: Advanced Carbon Fiber Prepreg for High Performance Components with Complex Geometry Jeff Dahl, Matthew Rebandt Ford Motor Company Read Paper Carbon Fiber Composite B-Pillar Reinforcement Manufacturing: Automated Preforming and Molding Jeff Dahl, Zach Pecchia Ford Motor Company Read Paper SolvaLite™ 730 Prepreg: Breaking the High-Volume Barrier for Structural Composites Natalie Newton, Stephen Jones Solvay Read Paper Enabling Technologies Paper Title Author Company Link Transitioning Automatic Inspection of Composites from Aerospace to Fully Automated High-Volume Automotive Applications Scott Blake Aligned Vision Read Paper Structural Thermoplastic Lightweight Design for Automotive Mass Production-Compression Molding of UD Tapes and LFT Timo Huber Fraunhofer ICT Read Paper T-RTM Technology and Processing of Thermoplastic Tapes -Two Technologies Managing a Common Challenge Norbert Mueller ENGEL AUSTRIA GmbH Read Paper Integration of Cost Models and Process Simulation Tools for Optimum Composite Manufacturing Process Seongchan Pack General Motors Read Paper Structural Health Monitoring: Influence of Stress Fields in Propagation of Guided Waves in Composites Rajendra Prasath Palanisamy Michigan State University Read Paper Experimental Ballistics and Comparative Quantification of Novel Polymer Foam Core Sandwich Structures Srikanth Raviprasad, Iwona Jasiuk University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Read Paper Hollow HP-RTM Carbon Fiber Parts Dan Rozelman Hennecke Read Paper Fabrication of A Recycled Tow Carbon Fiber Overwrapped Pressure Vessel Andrew Maxey Vartega Inc. Read Paper Nanotechnologies Paper Title Author Company Link Effect of Adding Cellulose Nanocrystals (CNC) on the Mechanical and Thermal Behavior of Acrodur® Biocomposites Ezatollah Amini University of Maine Read Paper Opportunities to Improve Carbon Fiber Composites for Vehicle Lightweighting Using Graphene Additives Megan Hathcock University of Alabama Read Paper State of the Science on the Safety of Carbon-based Nanomaterial Composites Jo Anne Shatkin Vireo Advisors, LLC Read Paper Reinforcement Technologies Paper Title Author Company Link A New Fiber Composite Technology for Cost Effective Weight Reduction in Automotive Pradip Bahukudumbi Coats Read Paper Fiber Sizing Fundamentals and Emerging Technologies Steve Bassetti Michelman Read Paper Suitability of Basalt Fiber Reinforced Polyamide-6 for Crash-Relevant Automotive Components Robert Brüll Institute for Textile Technology of RWTH Aachen University Read Paper Sustainable Composites Paper Title Author Company Link Lightweight D-LFT Cellulose-Based Composites for Semi-Structural Applications Michel Champagne National Research Council Canada Read Paper Mechanical Properties of Hybrid Basalt, Carbon Fiber-filled Recycled Polypropylene and Polyamide 6 Composites Douglas Gardner University of Maine Read Paper Glass Fiber-Nanocellulose-Unsaturated Polyester Resin Composite_ Processing, Properties and Potential for Automotive Applications Joyanta Goswami Georgia Institute of Technology Read Paper Cellulose Nanocrystals For Lightweight Sheet Molding Compounds Composites Kyriaki Kalaitzidou Georgia Institute of Technology Read Paper Hybrid Cellulose Composites-Lightweight Materials for Automotive Applications Mariana Desiree Reale Batista Michigan State University Read Paper Evaluation of Cellulose and Glass Fiber in Recycled Polyamide Thermoplastic Composites Leonardo Simon University of Waterloo Read Paper Advances in Thermoplastic Composites Paper Title Author Company Link Lightweight and Surface Technologies for New Field of Applications Stephen Beasley Krauss-Maffei Corporation Read Paper Fabrication and Crush Testing of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites for Automotive Energy Absorption Applications Anthony Coppola General Motors Read Paper New Material Solution for Lightweight Design John Fialka Styrolution Read Paper Thermally Conductive Thermoplastics- Problems and Solutions for Exterior Automotive Heat Management Systems Darin Grinsteinner Celanese Read Paper Weight Reduction in Automotive Components Probir Guha Coats Read Paper Characterization of Engineering Grade Wood Plastic Composites: Properties for High Performance Applications Yousoo Han University of Maine Read Paper Xylylenediamine Derived Polyamide Resin for High Mechanical Strength Composite Material Nobuhiko Matsumoto Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Co. Inc. Read Paper Mechanical and Adhesive Properties of Insert Injection Molded Aramid/Nylon Composites Badin Pinpathomrat Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan Read Paper Mass Production Applications with Tepex®, a Lightweight Thermoplastic Woven Composite Palanivel Swaminathan Lanxess Read Paper Advances in Aliphatic Polyketone Composites Cary Veith Esprix Technologies LP Read Paper Light Weight Reinforced Thermoplastic Composite with Improved Formability Hong XU Hanwha Azdel, Inc. Read Paper Advances in Thermoset Composites Paper Title Author Company Link Phenolic Molding Compounds in Automotive Powertrain Applications Cedric Ball Hexion Read Paper Specific Modulus Targeting for SMC Jim Emrick Ashland Read Paper Advances in Low Density SMC for Automotive Class A and Structural Applications Jeff Klipstein AOC Read Paper Investigation of Mechanical Property Differences Between Composites Produced Using Vacuum Assisted Liquid Compression Molding and High Pressure Resin Gleb Meirson FPC Read Paper New Developments in Polyurethane Sheet Molding Compound Daniel Park Fraunhofer Project Center Read Paper Developing Low VOC, Low Odor, Low Residual Styrene SMC Products Thomas Skelskey Ashland Read Paper Methods to Improve Mechanical Performance of Carbon Fiber Epoxy SMC Ian Swentek Hexion Read Paper Epoxy Matrix Technologies Enabling Cost Efficient Mass Production of Composite Leaf Springs Sigrid ter Heide Hexion Read Paper Virtual Prototyping, Testing & Modeling Paper Title Author Company Link Crush Simulation of Compression Modeled Chopped Fiber Box Section by a De-homogenized Multi Scale Computational Methodology Frank Abdi, Cody Godines AlphaSTAR Corporation Read Paper Multi-scale Material Modeling and Progressive Failure Analysis of a Hybrid Composite Bumper Frank Abdi, Cody Godines AlphaSTAR Corporation Read Paper Particle Filtering Based Prognosis of Fatigue Delamination Growth in Composites Using NDE Methods Portia Banerjee Michigan State University Read Paper Micromechanical Simulation of a Multifunctional Hybrid Composite with Continuous Steel and Carbon Fiber Reinforcement Constantin Bauer Math2Market GmbH Read Paper Virtual Characterization of Short Chopped Fiber Reinforced Plastics Behaviors Sylvain Calmels, Dustin Souza e-Xstream engineering Read Paper Validation of Material Models for Crash Testing of Carbon Fiber Composites: Project Conclusions Anthony Coppola General Motors Read Paper Toward an Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) Model for D-LFT Process Ying Fan Western University Read Paper Simulation of Injection Over-Molding for High-Rate Composites Processing Johnathan Goodsell Purdue University Read Paper Sensing Low Velocity Impact-induced Delamination in Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composites Through Electrical Resistance Measurements Robert Hart University of Iowa Read Paper Non-Destructive Inclusion Detection and Quantification for Carbon Fiber Laminated Composites with Pulse-Echo Ultrasonic Lens John Moreton Baylor University Read Paper End to End Process Simulation of the High Pressure Resin Transfer Molding Process Nathan Sharp Purdue University Read Paper Integrated Numerical Simulation for SMC in Compression Molding Process Srikar Vallury Moldex3D Read Paper