CEEFC Internal News Releases
March 2013
New SEM
A new Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) has been installed and commissioned. As a useful research tool, SEM’s coming brings lots of convenience and improves our research capabilities. The information session to learn about the machine has been conducted on 21st Jan. Further training will be conducted on 7th Mar. If you are interested, please contact Dr Selvan Pather. More details of the SEM (Jeol JCM6000 NeoScope) can be found via link.
February 2013
Researchers in Business grant: Ecofibre Industries Operations Pty Ltd & University of Southern Queensland
CEEFC got another $100,000 as the application for Researchers in Business funding that applied by Assoc Prof Hao Wang and Ecofibre has been granted. CEEFC and Ecofibre Pty Ltd have worked together for several years. This successful grant will strengthen the collaborations and broaden the communications between research and industry. The RIB project is focus on the development of hemp core based material.
February 2013
Welcome to CEEFC
Welcome new students join in CEEFC family. Mr Joshua Peauril starts his Master study. Mr Belas Khan, Ms Krishna Mishra, Mr Majid Mutthashar, Mr Iqbal Mison and Mr Sean Edwards start their Phd study. Ms Sherry Chen as an exchange student starts one and a half years study in Australia.
The 19th International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM-19)
The 19th International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM-19) will be held on from July 28 to August 2, 2013 in Montréal, Canada. This conference is one of the most highly acclaimed meetings in the field of composite materials and it takes place biannually in different countries all over the world. This year, CEEFC is organising a special session in the coming ICCM-19. The session organised by CEEFC is about Natural Fibre Composites.
Allan’s success in USQ RIP grant
Dr Allan Manalo received a total of AU100,000 from the Department of Industry Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Teaching – Enterprise Connect Researcher in Business grant scheme for the project “Development of Fibre Composite Sleepers”. The aim of this research project is to develop commercially viable fibre composite railway sleepers that can be used in a range of applications in local and overseas railway networks. In this project, finite element simulation, optimisation, structural testing, and analysis will be conducted to develop an optimised and cost-effective fibre composite railway sleeper technologies. This project is conducted in collaboration with CarbonLOC Pty Ltd in Toowoomba.
January 2013
CEEFC promoted fibre composites in Japan and Korea
Dr Allan Manalo and Professor Thiru Aravinthan, both CEEFC members successfully promoted the recent research, developments and applications on the cutting edge fibre composite technologies in civil infrastructure taking place in Australia to Japanese and Korean researchers. Both staff travelled to Saitama, Japan and Seoul, Korea from 22 January – 03 February as part of the international engagement activity entitled “Engaging Young Engineers and Scientists in FRP Research”, which is funded by the grant received by Allan from the Australian Government through the Australia-Korea Foundation of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
The knowledge sharing workshop attracted more than 60 researchers and engineers from the university, research institutions and fibre composite industries in Japan, Korea and China. Round table discussions with researchers from these different countries was also conducted to share and exchange ideas, discuss success stories, lay out future directions, and discuss opportunities for future collaborations in the field of fibre composite research and development. Further, the Allan and Thiru visited Dong-II Inc, a fibre composite manufacturer located in Ansan, Kyung gi-do, Korea to observe the manufacturing processes on fibre composite materials and pultruded sections. They also visited the state-of-the-art testing facilities at Korea Institute of Construction Technology as well as the composite structures including the pedestrian bridges and bikeways at Chengyechun Bridge, Hangang Grand Bridge and Arabat-Gil Bridge in Seoul.
January 2013
The 4th International Conference on Smart Materials and Nanotechnology in Engineering (SMN2013)
We are organizing “4th International Conference on Smart Materials and Nano-Technology in Engineering” in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia on 10-12 July 2013. The objective of the conference is to connect scientists and engineers to discuss advances in smart materials and nano-technology for the future development of engineering applications. The conference will be held in Hotel Grand Chancellor, Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
Conference website: http://www.a-tech.hk/SMN 2013/. The submitted papers will be peer reviewed and included in SPIE proceedings. The selected papers will be considered for publishing in special issues of Journal of Structural Health Monitoring, Journal of Nano Materials, Engineering Failure Analysis, Journal of Smart and Nano Materials and Journal of Multi Functional Composites, after a revision.
We are looking forward to see you at the SMN2013.
November 2012
CEEFC won the bidding for hosting the ACCM-11
CEEFC has won the bidding for hosting the 11th Asian-Australasia Conference for Composite Materials (ACCM-11), which will be held in 2018 proposedly in Gold Coast or Cairns. A/Prof Hao Wang, who is the executive director of Centre of Excellence in Engineered Fibre Composites (CEEFC), will lead the organisations of ACCM-11 as chairman.
ACCM is the biggest academic conference for composite research community in this region. It is held every two years. Last year’s ACCM-8 was held in Malaysia, 5-8 November. CEEFC kept an active involvement with this mainstream event, with three special sessions organised by CEEFC in ACCM-8 (chaired by Assoc Prof Hao Wang and Dr Jayantha Ananda Epaarachchi). Besides, Assoc Prof Hao Wang led a strong USQ team (2 staffs, 3 students and 1 ex-student) attended ACCM-8 in 2012. Other attendants from Australia were from CRC-ACS, Uni of Sydney, RMIT, UWA, and CSIRO.
The convening of the 11th ACCM will bring researchers, scholars and other participants together to present the up-to-date findings and stimulate the new research, meanwhile promoting the contributions of USQ to the world on composite material research areas.
As Assoc Prof Hao Wang said, ‘We expect the participant number between 400-500. The success in bidding is the recognition our research status in composite area. Hosting the conference in 2018 will be a significant boost of USQ's research profile in the region and the world.'
June 2012
CEEFC academics join CICE 2012 Conference
Two USQ's engineering academics showcased their groundbreaking research into fibre composites in civil infrastructure during the 6th International Conference on FRP Composites in Civil Engineering (CICE 2012) in Rome, Italy in the middle of this month (June 2012). Associate Professor in Engineered Fibre Composites Dr Thiru Aravinthan and Lecturer in Composite Materials and Mechanics Dr Mainul Islam from USQ’s Centre of Excellence in Engineered Fibre Composites (CEEFC) attended the three-day international conference in Rome on June 13, 14 and 15.
The Centre of Excellence in Engineered Fibre Composites (CEEFC), a Research Centre at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) has played a leading role in the development of fibre composites for various applications. CEEFC has partnered with several industry partners to develop the first fibre composite bridge in Australia and other notable projects.