Wednesday, February 5th
| 16:00 | Meeting at ThermHex Waben |
| 16:15 – 18:15 | Guided Tours at ThermHex Waben GmbH and Fraunhofer Pilot Plant Center for Polymer Synthesis and Processing PAZ |
| 19:00 | Opening / Introduction and Historical Remarks at German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina Dr. Jochen Pflug, ThermHex Waben Dr. Ralf Schlimper, Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS |
| Plenary Talk Dis- and debonds in sandwich structures – past and present Prof. Christian Berggreen, TU Denmark | |
| 20:00 | Get-Together / Dinner German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina |
Thursday, February 6th
Program is subject to change.
| 8:30 | Registration |
| 9:00 | Opening and Welcome Dr. Jochen Pflug, ThermHex Waben GmbH Dr. Ralf Schlimper, Group Manager Assessment of composite systems Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS |
| 9:15 | Industrial Applications |
| Past, present and future of Nomex® based and Kevlar® based honeycomb cores in aircraft applications Dr. Mikhail R Levit, Dr. Olivier Rozant, Aerospace, DuPont Safety and Construction | |
| Honeycomb cores in solar array substrates for the space industry Marc Verhaeg, Airborne | |
| Challenges and applications for sandwich structures in the aircraft cabin Florian Hesselbach, Diehl Aviation | |
| Depths vs. breadth of sandwich materials – or why finding a cabin/aircraft-worthy foam is not sufficient Lisa Müller, Airbus | |
| Thermoplastic high performance composites – the key for high volume aircraft sandwich part production Dr. Udo Berthold, COTESA | |
| 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 | Material properties and developments |
| Assessment of damage tolerance of composite sandwich structures in high performance applications Dr. Ralf Schäuble, Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS | |
| High volume production of complex sandwich structures in the foam molding process Juliane Troschitz, Institut für Leichtbau und Kunststofftechnik Dresden | |
| The FITS System for high series, low cost parts for interiors of aircrafts Martin de Groot, FITS Technology | |
| High performance thermoplastic honeycomb core Tomasz Czarnecki, EconCore | |
| Simulation of honeycomb cores in sandwich structures Dr. Falk Hähnel, TU Dresden | |
| 13:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 | Technologies and production techniques |
| Body concept of the DLR Safe Light Regional Vehicle Concept in innovative sandwich construction Michael Kriescher, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Fahrzeugkonzepte | |
| Overview sandwich technology @KUZ – Thermoplastic foam injection moulding of various sandwich material systems using physical foaming agents Annerose Hüttl, Dr. Mathias Kliem, Kunststoff-Zentrum Leipzig | |
| Hierarchical sandwich honeycomb cores Dr. Jochen Pflug, ThermHex Waben GmbH / EconCore | |
| Thermoplastic Sandwich Structures with Bead Foam Cores – Novel Processing Approaches Dr. Thomas Neumeyer, Neue Materialien Bayreuth | |
| A novel technology for mass production of continuous-fiber-reinforced thermoplastic sandwich structures with integrated honeycomb core Thomas Gläßer, Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS | |
| 15:45 | Outlook and closing remarks Dr. Jochen Pflug, Dr. Ralf Schlimper |
| 16:00 | Get-Together with coffee and cake |