BSSM's 60th Anniversary Showcase “Past to Present and Future Challenges”
The Aerospace Integrated Research & Test Centre (AIRTeC) in Bristol, UK.
November 2024
Chair: Rhys Pullin
Highlights included expert speakers, a tour of the facility including the Wing of Tomorrow test programme and demonstrations of small specimens and full-scale fatigue testing, static test campaigns. There was also a display of historical artefacts, a photography competition and exhibition.
Presentations
Welcome and Celebrating 60 Years of the BSSM
Dr Hari Arora
Swansea University
Challenges of Strain Measurements in Industry
Paul Richardson (Expert in Advanced Metrology Techniques - Airbus) and Linden Harris (Structures Test Expert - Airbus)
Digital Image Correlation
Pascal Lava
Thermoelastic Stress Analysis
Janice Barton
Photoelasticity: Past, Present and Future Challenges
William Fraser and Rachel Tomlinson
Virtual Fields
Fabrice Pierron
60th Anniversary Photo Competition
The winner of the BSSM's 60th Anniversary photo competition was named as Dr Hari Arora from Swansea University for his image of a segmentation of airways and blood vessels. CT images from patients were segmented to enable phantom lung manufacture and patient specific simulations.
Professor Janice Barton from Bristol University joined by some of our past chairs and supporters
Cardiff and Swansea University staff and students get a chance to meet up
We even enjoyed a delicious birthday cake
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