BIOMIMICRY: NATURE SHOWS US THE MOST EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS

Life appeared on Earth at least 3.5 billion years ago. Engineers have a lot to learn from Mother Nature's long experience of trial and error. It is no coincidence that topological optimization converges on the same solutions that already exist around us. And many excellent examples have been or will be used in the field of composites, such as beetle carapaces, mother-of-pearl nanocomposite structure, shrimp “smashers”, etc.

12:00pm - Biomimicry: context and opportunities for materials and composites

Luce-Marie PETIT, Project Manager Bioinspired Materials @ Ceebios

• Biomimicry (bio = life, mimesis = imitate) is an innovation strategy which consists in being inspired by living organisms to develop technologies and services towards more sobriety, efficiency and sustainability
• Biological composites (like wood, bone and abalone shell) present a variety of properties (strength, lightness, colour, stimuli-responsive...) despite their simple composition. Using only few chemical elements results in complete recyclable and biodegradable materials.
• Source of inspiration for eco-materials and composites for a variety of applications (transports, sports, equipment, building...)

12:30pm - Haute Couture meets Biomimetic Design

Benedikt BORCHERT, Sales Manager @ Bionic Composite Technologies AG

• Tailored fibre placement allowing load optimized structures
• Cost reduction through net-shape manufacturing
• Efficient preforming for high volume production

13:00pm - Bio-mimetic disruptive technology boosting composites impact strength

Pascal JOUBERT DES OUCHES, President of European Operations @ Helicoid Industries

• Mantis shrimp incredible impact toughness and helicoidal bio-microstructure
• Helicoid® composites laminates benefits
• Discussion about applications

JEC Group is launching for the first time a cycle of Technical Conferences in the form of 6 webinars, to enable a maximum delegates to make their benchmark on the state of the art composites technologies.

JEC Composites Technical Conferences offer presentations from the leaders, the industrials and the academics of the industry, covering current challenges, trends and the latest technological innovations with experience feedbacks in a wide variety of subjects.

This first cycle of JEC Composites Technical Conferences webinars will be focused on the 6 following topics:

• On May 20th: Eco-Design, Sustainability & Recycling: where are Composites?
• On May 27th: Structural Materials - Concrete & Composites: the Perfect Mix
• On June 3rd: Carbon: what Materials & Processes for the Future?
• On June 10th: Artificial Intelligence: from Design to Production 4.0
• On June 17th: Fibre & Nano-Reinforced Materials fill gaps in Additive Manufacturing
• On June 24th: Biomimicry: Nature shows us the Most Effective Solutions

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