It is a pleasure to announce that the FIBRESHIP consortium has carried out the fifth-dissemination action for university students and staff at the University Complutense de Madrid (UCM).

The seminar was held on 26th February 2020 at the Faculty of Physics in Madrid, Spain.The following two presentations were delivered to Materials Engineer students from the University Complutense de Madrid.

Cristobal Garcia (TSI) – “General overview of the FIBRESHIP project

  • The main objective of this project is to promote the use of composite materials in the design and construction of large-scale ships. The following technical challenges were explained and how FIBRESHIP is overcoming them: Full design of three types of vessels (Containership, ROPAX, and FRV) in lightweight composite mats, selection of the most optimum composite materials for the construction of lightweight vessels, development of advanced FEM tools to evaluate the structural and fire performance of the ships, construction of an FRV demonstrator as a proof of concept, market Impact of the technologies developed in the project, and other multiple technological advances which were mentioned in the presentation.
Dissemination 5 Cristobal Garcia

Eduardo Sanchez (TSI) – “Structural Design of the fishing research vessel (FRV) in composite materials”

  • In this presentation, Eduardo conducted a master class in FRP design of composite lightweight vessels to the attendees of the seminar. Through this presentation, the full design and calculation process of the fishing research vessel designed by TSI was presented to the audience. Besides, the main challenges and technical achievements of the construction process of the FRV demonstrator built at IxBlue shipyards were detailed in the presentation.
Dissemination 5 Eduardo  Sánchez

We would like to especially thank the professors Endzhe Matykina and Jesus Angel Muñoz for giving us the opportunity of presenting the FIBRESHIP project in the University Complutense de Madrid. A very special thanks also go to professor David Maestre for their kindness and readiness to hold this seminar. Last but not least important, we would like to acknowledge to the Materials Engineering students for their very interesting questions and high interest in the activities carried out along the FIBRESHIP project.

The FIBRESHIP partners expect that this kind of dissemination actions have influence in the future engineers and researchers. At the same time, it is presented that European countries can collaborate together towards a common aims and obtain technological benefits from them thanks to the support and funding of INEA and European Commission through R&D programmes such as H2020.