美国塑料工程师协会(SPE)和JEC集团将合作举办首个聚焦自行车技术的国际会议，从主办单位名称可知本次大会重点是交流自行车塑料复合材料化进展与趋势，包括自行车设计趋势、材料加工和车体性能等主题。
SPE CEO Willem De Vos表示非金属自行车框架和零部件市场在不断发展着，近期复合材料在专业自行车或赛车上的成功应用将为大规模量产引路，全塑料自行车的出现会比我们预想的更早。另外，JEC集团董事长兼CEO Frederique Mutel指出，自行车运动变得越来越流行，近期相关报告预测，至2019年，自行车市场将增至650亿美元。换言之，非金属材料（主要是指塑料纤维复合材料）在自行车领域也是越来越有钱途地。。
时间和地点：8-9 December 2015, in Brussels, Belgium.
嘉宾演讲主题：（阅读主题后大概了解自行车塑料化将会使用哪些材料）
第一天：
1、Welcome by SPE/JEC
2、Introductory Remarks by Tom Van Damme – Vice President UCI
3、Key-note 1: Evolving Bicycle Designs，Mark Barfield / Technical Manager at UCI
4、Key-note 2: Limits and opportunities in Competition Sports
– Safety and Security criteria
– New technologies challenge
– Higher skill requirements for the athletes
Jan Anders Manson / Technology expert Union Cycliste Internationale at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Session 1: Latest trends in design and innovation
最新的自行车设计趋势
5、Innovation in the bike industry – future direction，Phil White / Co-founder of CERVELO
6、Design of Racing bikes by Micro Aerodynamics Research，Bert Celis / Co-founder and Harm Ubbens / CEO of Flanders Bike Valley
7、Designing and engineering the lightest and stiffest road racing bicycle frame
– Optimization of bicycle frame design
– Reach the perfect balance between weight, stiffness and comfort
– Virtual testing
Adam Wais / CEO, owner and co-founder of Rolo Bike
8、Designing and building ultra light composite bicycle parts using Spread Tow fabrics and its thin plies
– Spread tow carbon reinforcements in thin tapes in woven structures or UDs
– 20% weight reduction in bike frames achievable
– Reduce the lay-up time
Fredrik Ohlsson / Product development director at Oxeon AB – Textreme
9、C-Ply® spread NCF for tubular structures
– Less finishing time and prepreg scraps
– Thin ply and shallow angle technology
– Fast RTM process for tubular products
Pascal Joubert des Ouches / Market Development Manager at Chomarat
Session 2: Materials & Processes for bicycle frame and components manufacturing
自行车材料和加工，这部分内容主要设计塑料复合材料在自行车中应用，值得大家关注。
10、Towards ductile carbon composite bike frames via gradual failure and fibre scissoring of thin ply angle-ply laminates，
– Suppress the damage mechanisms of matrix cracking and delamination
– Metal-like stress-strain curve
– New path for the design of frames or components
Jonathan Fuller / Research Assistant at University of Bristol
11、Thermoplastic Composites: linking high volume and high tech，
– Short curing cycle allowing high volumes
– High toughness and impact resistance
– Large choice of matrixes, weldability
Winand Kok / Manager Engineering at Ten Cate Advanced Composites
13、Comfort with natural fibres，
– Great intrinsic properties of flax fibres
– Improving frame damping properties
– Increase flexural stiffness of tubes or thin-walls
Cyrille Boinay / CEO of Bcomp
14、Carbon reinforced recyclable Epoxy resin matrix composite，
– A recyclable resin formulation
– Comparable properties with standard solutions
– 95% of recovery
Xin Li / Vice President at Adesso Advanced Materials Wuxi
15、Hybrid Fibre Composites for Delamination Resistance and Cost Saving，
– Hybrid composites for cost saving in bicycle mass production
– Comparing the delamination resistance of hybrid and non-hybrid composites
– Themoplastic and thermoset delamination properties
Tomas Katafiasz / PhD Student at Imperial College London
16、Polyurethane based Prepreg Systems ease of manufacturing for future composite bikes，
– Storage stable at room temperature for 2-3 months
– Ultra-fast curing
– High toughnessy
Dr. Leif Ickert / Project House Composites at Evonik
17、Polyethylene Biocomposite with Cellulose Fibers and Stabilized with Lignin: Low Weight, High Modulus and Stability，
Aurelio De Paoli / Professor at University of Campinas
18、Components manufacturing and mass production，
– Bring the production of carbon parts back to Europe
– Status quo
– Key points for a success
Christian Gemperlein / Managing director at All Head Composites
19、Automated Production of CFRP Bicycle Rims，
Kind Kalle / T.U.Munich
第二天：
20、Introduction to day 2 by Airbus – Industrial production of CFRP components – potential synergies between aerospace and bicycle industry
– Automation of manufacturing processes
– Less costs
– High and robust quality
Joachim Piepenbrock / Head of Industrial Systems at Airbus – Composite Technology Center Stade GmbH
21、Future mobility: Closing the gap between bicycles and motorcycles
Florian Huber / Development Manager at KTM
22、Velocity: the ®Evolution of e-bikes
– Invisible electric engine incorporated in the rear rim and frame
– 13 kg drive assisted bicycle
– 100 km/h and 500 watt power achievable
Thomas Leschik / Managing director at CarboFibretec
Session 3: Safety vs Performance
自行车安全性能
23、The Impact test on bicycle wheels: a good way to improve safety
Jacky Lecomte / CEO, owner and co-founder of Sirris
24、High-performance ductile hybrid composites for improved reliability and safety
– Hybridisation of different types of fibres
– Gradual failure
– Appearance changes before the final failure load as safety feature
Meisam Jalalvand / Research Assistant at University of Bristol
25、Innovative core material leads to better protecting helmets
– Cycle helmet safety standards have hardly evolved in the last 20 years
– The risk for severe head injuries is still high within the allowed limits
– Innovative helmet core materials can significantly reduce the risk of severe head injuries
Bastiaan Jongsma / Sales Director at Koroyd
26、Carbon fibers frame and vibratory comfort
– Modal analysis of the composite frames
– Vibration eraser system
– Innovative solution to filter the main vibration coming from the fork
Hervé Servignat and David Peltier / Design Engineers at Time Sport International
27、Lightweight, Tough Additive for Improved impact resistance and Safety in Carbon Fiber Parts
Jen Hanna / Innegra Technologies
28、Advanced Simulation of Composites – From Aerospace to High Performance Composite Bikes
– Robust methods from automotive and aerospace
– Non-linear progressive failure analysis
– Stiffness and strength optimization
Roger Assaker / CEO of E-xstream
Session 4: Improvement of wheels performance
提高自行车车轮性能
29、Freedom underlined by cycling – Composites release cycle design
Pierre-Jean Martin / CEO of Corima
30、Filament wound carbon fiber composite bicycle rims
– Half of the inter batch variance in terms of stiffness compared with manual lay-up
– 20 to 25 % cost reduction compared with manual lay-up
– Nearly waste less process
Victor Major / CEO of Velocite Tech
31、Development and serial production of the lightest composite suspension fork based on a tailored fibre placement technology
– Precise fibre alignment to obtain the best mechanical performance
– Repeatability and serial production of lightweight CFRP components
– 40 % weight reduction compared with well-established solution
Marcel Siegfried / Development Engineer at BIONTEC Bionic Composite Technologies AG
32、Designing and manufacturing road bicycle wheels in composites using different techniques
– Numerical parametric study of structure and aerodynamic
– Geometrical definition
– Comparison between solutions
Borja Madramany Núñez / University of Valencia
33、Development and Testing of a Flexible Seatpost Based on Pultruded Profiles for Use in Road/Racing Bicycles
– Flexible seat-post for road/racing bikes
– Pseudo-parallelogram kinematics
– CFRP profiles, Pultrusion, Pull-Braiding
Herbert Engelen / R&D Engineer at Fraunhofer Institut
Session 5: Performance: increasing stiffness, increasing comfort, reducing failure
34、Measuring stiffness and comfort of bicycle frames
– Evaluation and tuning of frame stiffness and vibration isolation
– Dedicated test rig
– Numerical validation
Joachim Van Walleghem / Founder of Bike Labs International
35、Failure analysis of Carbon fibre bycicles with destructive examination techniques，Scott Ganaja / President, Mechanical Engineer of Progressiv Engineering
36、Additive Manufacturing for Joining Carbon Fiber Composite Tubes
– Design Optimizaion
– Customization for small series or prototypes
– A promising route for joining carbon tubes
Kim Niklas Antin / Researcher at Aalto University