- - Review of design evolution to date
- - Presentation of the factors constricting design
- - Presentation for potential areas for change
Date
December 8-9, 2015Location
Marriott Hotels in Brussels, BelgiumRemaining
245 TicketsSpeakers
23 Professional SpeakersSponsors
PHOTOS OF THE EVENT
Cyclitech is the first international conference on bicycle technology co-organized by JEC Group and SPE. The event will take place on 8-9 December 2015, in Brussels, Belgium.
about THE event / Co-organized by JEC Group and SPE
These two days conferences offer you a unique opportunity to discuss and learn on the latest bicycle technologies
First day
- Latest trends in design and innovation
- Materials & Processes for bicycle frame and components manufacturing
Second day
- Safety vs Performance
- Improvement of wheels performance
- Performance: increasing stiffness, increasing comfort, reducing failure
Panel Discussion – Round Table with Pro Riders and Press
Among the registered companies
AALTO UNIVERSITY / ADESSO ADVANCED MATERIALS WUXI CO. LTD. / AIRBUS / ALL AHEAD COMPOSITES / ALTAIR / BCOMP / BTWIN / BIKELABS INTERNATIONAL / BIONTEC BIONIC COMPOSITE TECHNOLOGIES AG / CARBOFIBRETEC / CERVELO CYCLES / CHOMARAT / CORIMA / DSM DYNEEMA / DT SWISS AG/ ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE / EVONIK / EXSTREAM / FLANDERS’ BIKE VALLEY / FRAUNHOFER-ICT / IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON / INNEGRA TECHNOLOGIES / KOROYD / KTM TECHNOLOGIES / LOOK CYCLE INTERNATIONAL / ORBEA S. COOP / PIVOT CYCLES / PROGRESSIV ENGINEERING / RED BULL TECHNOLOGY / REEBOK CCM / ROLLS ROYCE / ROLO BIKE/ SIRRIS / STATE UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS, UNICAMP / TENCATE ADVANCED COMPOSITES / TEXTREME - OXEON AB / TIME SPORT INTERNATIONAL / UCI / UNIVERSITE OF BRISTOL / UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA / VELOCITE TECH
Event Schedule
First day: 08.12.2015
- Introduction
(08:45am)
- Session 1 (09:50am): Latest trends in design and innovation
- Session 2 (01:30pm):Materials & Processes for bicycle frame and components manufacturing
Second day: 09.12.2015
- Introduction
(08:00am)
- Session 3 (09:20am): Safety vs Performance
- Session 4 (01:20pm): Improvement of wheels performance
- Session 5 (03:40pm): Performance: increasing stiffness, increasing comfort, reducing failure
Key-note 2: Limits and opportunities in Competition Sports
- - Safety and Security criteria
- - New technologies challenge
- - Higher skill requirements for the athletes
- - Flanders’ Bike Valley as a cycling open innovation center
- - The open wind tunnel facility for testing cycling products and teams
- - Micro-aerodynamic product design by use of a laser measurement (PIV) system
- - Optimization of bicycle frame design
- - Reach the perfect balance between weight, stiffness and comfort
- - Virtual testing
- - Spread tow carbon reinforcements in thin tapes in woven structures or UDs
- - 20% weight reduction in bike frames achievable
- - Reduce the lay-up time
- - Less finishing time and prepreg scraps
- - Thin ply and shallow angle technology
- - Fast RTM process for tubular products
- - Suppress the damage mechanisms of matrix cracking and delamination
- - Metal-like stress-strain curve
- - New path for the design of frames or components
- - Short curing cycle allowing high volumes
- - High toughness and impact resistance
- - Large choice of matrixes, weldability
- - Great intrinsic properties of flax fibres
- - Improving frame damping properties
- - Increase flexural stiffness of tubes or thin-walls
- - A recyclable resin formulation
- - Comparable properties with standard solutions
- - 95% of recovery
- - Hybrid composites for cost saving in bicycle mass production
- - Comparing the delamination resistance of hybrid and non-hybrid composites
- - Themoplastic and thermoset delamination properties
- - Storage stable at room temperature for 2-3 months
- - Ultra-fast curing
- - High toughnessy
- - Bring the production of carbon parts back to Europe
- - Status quo
- - Key points for a success
- - Increased automation
- - Increased process control
- - A switch to more cost effective materials
Industrial production of CFRP components - potential synergies between aerospace and bicycle industry
- - Automation of manufacturing processes
- - Less costs
- - High and robust quality
- - Influence of environment and enhanced electrics processes
- - Evolving target groups and their demands
- - New production methods and part design possibilities
- - Invisible electric engine incorporated in the rear rim and frame
- - 13 kg drive assisted bicycle
- - 100 km/h and 500 watt power achievable
- - Aim to improve the security of bicycle racers
- - Development of an impact test to ensure “safe” break of the wheels after impact
- - Today the wheels are safer, and the manufacturers often know how to design “safe” wheels.
- - Hybridisation of different types of fibres
- - Gradual failure
- - Appearance changes before the final failure load as safety feature
- - 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
- - Modal analysis of the composite frames
- - Vibration eraser system
- - Innovative solution to filter the main vibration coming from the fork
- - Present case studies of using Innegra in tubular structures- for safety and light weight
- - How Innegra can prevent catastrophic failure in composite structures
- - Using Innegra to increase durability and damping properties
- - Robust methods from automotive and aerospace
- - Non-linear progressive failure analysis
- - Stiffness and strength optimization
- - Made out of wood, steel, aluminum and today carbon composites, bicycle is influenced by different phases of history
- - How composites revolutionize bicycle design and its components
- - A look back at 25 years of more and more performing composites
- - 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
- - 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
- - Numerical parametric study of structure and aerodynamic
- - Geometrical definition
- - Comparison between solutions
- - Flexible seat-post for road/racing bikes
- - Pseudo-parallelogram kinematics
- - CFRP profiles, Pultrusion, Pull-Braiding
- - Evaluation and tuning of frame stiffness and vibration isolation
- - Dedicated test rig
- - Numerical validation
- - Failure analysis techniques are useful tools for engineers.
- - Destructive examination provides information not possible by other techniques.
- - Used to improve product designs and to optimize manufacturing processes
- - Design Optimizaion
- - Customization for small series or prototypes
- - A promising route for joining carbon tubes
