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May 20-21, 2019 | Vienna, Austria
Biomaterials and Nanomaterials &
Materials Physics and Materials Science
2nd International Conference on
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Journal of Materials Science and Nanotechnology | Volume 3
Sotirios Grammatikos
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Solutions and breakthrough technologies to overcome the
challenges of polymer composites adoption in construction
Whilst the design and manufacturing of construction
composites has been improved, there are still major
issues pertaining to degradation especially in challenging
onshore and offshore service conditions. Coupled
environmental agingwith service-induced degradation lead
to significant deterioration during service. Moisture, rain &
sand erosion, UV radiation, lightning strikes, impact damage
(from bird strikes and hail) as well as thermomechanical
fatigue are the major causes of structural degradation.
As the effects of the aforementioned conditions (in most
cases act in combination) are not always fully understood,
unexpected behavior during service often results in
structural failures. This undoubtedly reduces the reliability
of composites as structural elements making investors and
stakeholders reticent in long-term investing in lightweight
structures. A complete analysis of the drawbacks of
composites that hinder them from being fully adopted
by the construction sector will be presented along with
the latest technological breakthroughs to overcome such
obstacles pertaining to nanotechnology, modelling tools
and advanced non-destructive testing.
Speaker Biography
Sotirios Grammatikos is a professor in polymers and composites at
NTNU in Norway, director of the ASEM lab and leader of the research
group Sustainable Composites. He is also an affiliated professor at
Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. He specializes in the area
of product development, characterization, assessment and structural
health monitoring of advanced composite materials and structures.
His main research interests are smart features of composites, non-
destructive evaluation, recycling and durability. Before joining NTNU,
he worked at Chalmers, the University of Bath, UK and the University of
Ioannina, Greece. He holds a PhD in materials engineering specialized
in structural integrity of aerostructures (2009-2013) and has received
training in lightweight aerospace composites from the Hellenic
Aerospace Industry (HAI). He is author/co-author of approximately 40
publications with 10 h-index. Currently, he supervises 20 graduate and
post-graduate students, part of 15 research and innovation projects of
which 3 he is coordinator.
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