EUPOC 2017 is aiming to introduce the most recent developments within the various areas of additive manufacturing for polymer parts with presentations from leading international scientists and industrial researchers working in this field. Contributions will address fundamental and experimental aspects, discuss the bottlenecks, model the physics of these processes in order to consider their simulations, present applications, material-related issues and part properties. In the field of polymer part production, several types of processes and variants are developing rapidly: stereo-lithography, laser sintering, fused filament fabrication, binder or material jetting, cold spray, … In coming years this area of research, at the intersection between fundamental science and technology, is expected to define new and innovative applications for polymers. EUPOC 2017 will offer a platform for discussing the main challenges facing this research field bringing together scientists, engineers, and students working on every aspect of additive manufacturing of polymer parts.
Major topics will include:
● Instrumentation of processes;
● New polymer materials for additive manufacturing : chemistries and formulations;
● Involved physical and chemical processes (experimental and modeling);
● Induced microstructures;
● Induced mechanical properties;
● Simulations of processes;
● New technologies and innovative developments.
Well-known scientists involved in polymers and additive manufacturing already agree to give a plenary lectures (list which will completed):
- Dr. Ingo Alig – Fraunhofer Institute LBF, Darmstadt, Germany – ‘Viscoelastic modelling of gas pore collapse during polymer sintering’
- Prof. Federica Chiellini – University Pisa, Italy – ‘Additive manufacturing of polymer scaffolds for biomedical applications’
- Prof. Jose A. Cova – University of Minho I3N, Portugal –
- Prof. Ruth Goodridge – University of Nottingham, UK – ‘Laser Sintering of Polymer Nanocomposites’
- Prof. Jacques Lalevée – IS2M Mulhouse, France – ‘New Photosensitive Resins For LED Projector 3D Printing’
- Prof. Olivier Lame – MATEIS Université de Lyon/INSA Lyon,France – ‘Cold spray processing of polymers’
- Dr. Kalman Migler – NIST, Gaithersburg, USA – ‘The Polymer Physics of Extrusion-based Additive Manufacturing’
- Prof. Francesca Nanni – University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Italy –
- Prof. Peter Van Puyvelde – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium – ‘Polymers for laser sintering: frow powder to product’
Visit the EUPOC 2017 Conference: http://eupoc.it/index.html
Important dates:
– Registration before April 15, 2017 (available on: http://eupoc.it/registration.html )
– Oral and poster contributions: email a one-page PDF abstract by 20 March, 2017 to mg.viola@unipi.it
– Acceptance notifications: April 7, 2017
Dr. Claire BARRES, Prof. Jean-François GERARD, Gilles REGNIER
EUPOC 2017 Chairs
